How to Use resonance in a Sentence

resonance

noun
Definition of resonancenext
  • His story didn't have much resonance with the audience.
  • One goal: To find resonance for today from the lessons of the past.
    — oregonlive, 16 Jan. 2023
  • Launched in 2000, this was the world’s first wristwatch to make use of resonance.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 12 May 2022
  • The reaction and the resonance to the film, at this scale, did surprise me, yes.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Mar. 2023
  • In fact, the resonance of The Survivor rings too true today.
    — Barry Levinson, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Aug. 2022
  • That has some resonances with The Lightning Thief, right?
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 24 Feb. 2023
  • But the play has a grim frisson of fresh resonance today.
    — Charles Isherwood, WSJ, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Or there is something in the artist’s life that creates resonance for us.
    — Zain Jaffer, Rolling Stone, 26 Sep. 2024
  • There are two warnings in all of this, both of them bleak, both of them with resonance far beyond Ajax.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Hee’s felt it through a resonance board made with a Bluetooth speaker on it.
    — Frank Digiacomo, Billboard, 30 Aug. 2023
  • There’s resonance in a body that forces families to deal with death.
    — Karen Heller, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Bichir believes that Eleanor's plight has resonance in the real world.
    — Clark Collis, EW.com, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Netflix is seeking to cast ’90s mainstays for the band roles to give the film extra resonance and fun.
    — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Set aside the resonance of Kristallnacht in 1938, which Gov. Josh Shapiro noted.
    — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Part of the physics of resonance is that when two forms vibrate together, both are changed.
    — Ginny Whitelaw, Forbes, 1 Aug. 2022
  • The Colorado Springs shooting was sure to bring special resonance to those events.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Nov. 2022
  • Add up a few of these shifts and the orbits of neighboring planets are spread apart enough far enough to lose their resonance.
    — Sean Raymond, Scientific American, 22 Mar. 2022
  • The fact that the movie has any resonance is great—but, at the same time, tells me that, unfortunately, the issue is still very much around.
    — Elissa Suh, Vogue, 18 Sep. 2024
  • Noting that the fact that it was partly shot in Ukraine, standing in for Poland, also brought a new resonance to the story.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 2 July 2022
  • Still, the film’s commercial success speaks to its wide reach and resonance.
    — Kaitlyn Huamani, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2024
  • There’s something about the darkness and melancholy of Irish dramas that give them a resonance all their own.
    — Scott Phillips, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
  • But those resonances should serve as an injunction against wide-scale killing, not as a call to extend it.
    — Atina Grossmann, The New York Review of Books, 20 Nov. 2023
  • While the events take on new resonance, the project is putting a new focus on Ukrainian culture with its new project, CulturEUkraine.
    — Julia Buckley, CNN, 26 Mar. 2022
  • In the later songs, the dyad is more abstractly the speaker and himself, and the lyrics take on a more rhetorical resonance.
    — Brandon Taylor, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Its emotional resonance floored the man with the golden ears.
    — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 June 2022
  • Its prose thrums with a lofty, tragic resonance that many of Homer’s translators have strived for.
    — Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024
  • This November, the 90th anniversary of the Holodomor took on fresh resonance.
    — Oleksandra Gaidai, CNN, 6 Dec. 2022
  • There’s a resonance in the call to break out of the traditional studio and label systems.
    — Ali Aksu, Rolling Stone, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Echoes of those parts in Parsons’s excellent performance stir up a host of greater resonances.
    — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2024
  • But in recent years, complaints of acrid odors, fiery accidents, soot and harmful emissions have gained new resonance as officials become more sensitive to accusations of environmental injustice.
    — Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024

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