How to Use consonance in a Sentence

consonance

noun
  • Laotian nam khao is a master class in textural consonance.
    Dallas News, 11 Aug. 2022
  • 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

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