How to Use resonant in a Sentence

resonant

adjective
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  • He has a deep, resonant voice.
  • His words were resonant with meaning.
  • The finish is resonant, with a light thrum of spicy heat.
    — Susan Choung, Good Housekeeping, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Her set proved those hits belong among the most resonant pop and R&B of her era.
    — August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2024
  • That’s a resonant chord at the moment, when the whole country, the whole world, seems to be starting from scratch.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2021
  • The themes addressed in Shadow and Bone now feel even more resonant to Li.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Looking to the legal horizon, the Supreme Court could find this plan resonant.
    — Aron Solomon, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2023
  • What trend or trends from the Spring 2022 collections is most resonant for you?
    — Vogue, 12 Oct. 2021
  • But a colleague devised a more resonant title for the team: the coolhunters.
    — Mark Bergen, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2022
  • And as the world plods through the third year of the pandemic, one of her most peculiar works might be the most resonant today.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Atlantic, 1 Feb. 2022
  • At the end of every play in the Dublin Trilogy, the stage has pushed beyond the real into a dense and resonant space of metaphor.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 13 Oct. 2023
  • One thumb-strike of that hammer is claimed to produce a loud, resonant ring that can be heard from a distance of over 30 feet (9 m).
    — Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Still, for Jackman, the show is more resonant than ever.
    — Adam Green, Vogue, 10 Feb. 2022
  • At the same time, Glaser’s own magazine work was among his most resonant achievements.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Wise to the ways truth shifts with its tellers, Diop has created a resonant novel.
    — Monitor Contributors, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Sep. 2023
  • What’s on it is all the stuff that wasn’t lively or punchy or resonant or dramatic enough to make it into the finished film.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 25 Nov. 2021
  • Those are the comedies and the shows that are most resonant with audiences around the world, but particularly here in the U.S.
    — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 22 Feb. 2022
  • The plays themselves are deep and resonant and beautiful and moving.
    — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 6 June 2022
  • The 2000s digs deep into the era, exploring the people and trends that made this period so resonant.
    — Vogue, 8 Sep. 2021
  • And the tools available to him are few: a resonant name, a gentle manner, and a handful of social-media accounts.
    — Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Those themes, about truth and the importance of a free press, are especially resonant in 2021.
    — Caryn James, Town & Country, 1 Sep. 2021
  • The resonant woody punch of a good bourbon or rye, the very thing fans of the spirit most enjoy, is much more at home sipped slowly by a fire than it is taken through a straw at the beach.
    — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 25 July 2024
  • One resonant talk has the power to inspire an audience– both in their lives and in making a decision to work with you.
    — Ashley Stahl, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
  • The design is also pivotal to the show’s deeply affecting climax, a resonant moment of change and epiphany.
    — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Clooney’s father, Nick, 88, his TV anchorman voice still resonant, shared his pride in his son.
    — Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2022
  • And the most resonant deal in this year’s spending bonanza involved a player many sports fans have never heard of.
    — Ben Cohen, WSJ, 14 July 2023
  • In some ways, the quiet moments are more resonant than the cacophony.
    — Cesar Hernandez, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 July 2022
  • Telling a resonant story still drives Gunning, all these years after her classmates laughed at a scene.
    — Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 16 June 2024
  • His spine-chilling delivery, low and resonant, has both cheek and insight, resulting in a sigh of relief from fans, who dared not have any expectations.
    — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Taylor has been a key collaborator in our short-form projects for years, and his ability to craft visually stunning and emotionally resonant stories has always stood out.
    — Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Oct. 2024

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