How to Use consonance in a Sentence

consonance

noun

• There may be a bit too much consonance between the events past and present that give the novel its structure.
  — Ellen Akins Washington Post, Star Tribune, 22 Feb. 2021
• There’s a narrative consonance between the two sides of the record—a hungering for oblivion.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2020
• As always, Maxo’s syrup-thick voice and consonance-heavy flow detail the wheeling and dealing of a life on the street, with an introspective approach most save for therapy.
  — Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2022
• These crosscurrents of connection add up to a consonance that might almost be mythic.
  — Hermione Hoby, New York Times, 26 May 2017
• This creates an odd consonance between internal and external passage, one that suggests that the mind is also a landscape of sorts and that walking is one way to traverse it.
  — Charlotte Shane, New Republic, 26 May 2017
• It was proposed as an alternative (even if there were more consonances than were openly discussed at the time), and was bolstered by being the opposition to something too grand.
  — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2018
• Through his copious projects, Mr. Schulze’s music maintained a sense of timing: when to meditate, when to build, when to ease back, when to leap ahead, how to balance suspense and repose, dissonance and consonance.
  — Jon Pareles, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Apr. 2022
• Through his copious projects, Mr. Schulze’s music maintained a sense of timing: when to meditate, when to build, when to ease back, when to leap ahead, how to balance suspense and repose, dissonance and consonance.
  — Jon Pareles, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Apr. 2022
• Given the conditions, many oil marketing companies in India were not willing to sell fuel products at a loss since retail prices have not risen in the country in consonance with global prices.
  — Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 4 July 2022
• The sounds get along not necessarily through traditional harmonic consonance (although there is plenty of that), but through a kind of rightness of being.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2021
• The orchestras of cicadas in consonance with Odella's hisses and buzzes, then, are infrequent cosmic church bells, entoning the next generational shift in a call to worship while keeping track of nature's rhythm—patient, holy metromes to our lives.
  — Ross Kenneth Urken, Scientific American, 14 June 2021
• But a film also resonates peculiarly with the specific time of its creation, not necessarily through overt connections to current events but in terms of consonance or dissonance with prevailing moods.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2017
• That has helped create consonance among all the various regulators and policymakers involved in state climate policy.
  — David Roberts, Vox, 23 Aug. 2018
• The ending of the first movement makes clear Britten’s awareness of this aesthetic dichotomy, with a cello glissando ascent through the harmonic series, an acoustic phenomenon literally at the core of western ideas of musical consonance and harmony.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Apr. 2022
• Minimalism would herald an unexpected inventive return to consonance, traditional harmony and pulse, all of which had little appeal to modern music.
  — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 21 Apr. 2018
• Sentimental as in: against indifference; toward world-building, sensation, and consonance.
  — Gala Mukomolova, refinery29.com, 11 July 2021
• Amusics also can’t distinguish consonance from dissonance.
  — Sciencenow, WIRED, 13 Nov. 2012

Last Updated: 29 Aug 2024