How to Use redound in a Sentence

redound

verb

• But at the end of the day, the plaudits must redound to the patriarch.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 12 Apr. 2017
• But once the projects are built, the benefits redound to private enterprise.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2021
• If a person wants to use drugs, the thinking goes, the impacts of those choices redound almost entirely on him.
  — Jeff Eager, National Review, 7 Feb. 2022
• Kennedy spent the fall of ’56 campaigning for Stevenson but picked his own venues, ones that could redound to his benefit four years later.
  — Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker, 22 May 2017
• Even the success of a competitor redounded to the N.F.L.’s benefit.
  — James Surowiecki, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2019
• This amounted to a formula for power: The greater the menace to the nation’s moral legitimacy, the more power redounded to the left.
  — Shelby Steele, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2018
• As such, some of the business benefits of rolling back the rule will redound to the golf industry, which has been a major opponent of the regulation since before it was signed in the summer of 2015.
  — Jeremy Venook, The Atlantic, 13 July 2017
• Every journalist knows this red-faced feeling, a mix of triumph and guilt, of securing the story that will redound glory unto them, not the subject.
  — Ryu Spaeth, The New Republic, 27 Nov. 2020
• His accomplishments–a massive corporate tax cut, a strong stock market–have largely redounded to the benefit of the bankers and fat cats.
  — Time, 15 Feb. 2018
• That Trump himself has not been charged, at least yet, may redound to his personal and political benefit.
  — Marshall H. Tanick, Star Tribune, 7 July 2021
• Whether the pursuit of private happiness reliably redounds to the common moral good is a separate question.
  — Jeffrey Collins, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2018
• All ticket sales and proceeds from my auctioning myself off for language performances and poker lessons will redound to NCRT.
  — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Feb. 2022
• Such wins have redounded to the benefit of not only the workers involved: recent studies suggest that one of the main reasons for declines in student outcomes has been the rise of part-time teachers.
  — Charles Petersen, The New York Review of Books, 25 Feb. 2020
• That heritage has given him standing with immigrant activists, bona fides that can redound to his benefit.
  — Manuel Roig-Franzia, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2021
• What’s interesting about these and other radical acts of the Roberts Court, though, is that Democrats have watched the political fallout redound to their benefit.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 19 Aug. 2023
• If anything, paychecks in desirable jobs would be free to shrink to honorarium size, and choice opportunity would again redound to the rich, for whom the shrinkage would not mean very much.
  — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2014
• Even if the federal response goes as well as could be expected, Mother Nature could still wreak significant death and destruction that could redound to the White House.
  — David Nakamura, chicagotribune.com, 26 Aug. 2017
• This skill would redound to McCall's benefit in later years, with much of his magazine work lampooning the exaggerated style and Space Age promise of the ads that once paid his rent.
  — Jamie Kitman, Car and Driver, 5 Nov. 2013
• Washington’s turbulence has yet to redound to the benefit of Democrats, and the Montana victory soothed some Republican nerves.
  — Molly Ball, The Atlantic, 29 May 2017
• None of which—at first—seemed to have redounded negatively on her burgeoning social-media career.
  — Kevin Baker, Harper's magazine, 24 June 2019
• If anything, Election Day controversies are most likely to redound to the party’s benefit.
  — Nick Tabor, The New Republic, 5 Apr. 2022
• The regrettable attack on Nat (King) Cole in Birmingham by a band of hoodlums redounds to the everlasting discredit of those who foster race prejudice.
  — AL.com, 11 Jan. 2018
• Any development that diverts the public’s attention to health care — and thus, to the two parties’ disparate fiscal priorities — is likely to redound to the Democrats’ benefit.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 2 Apr. 2018
• And, in the short-term this may also redound to the benefit of those who argue for the benefits of genetic diversity through random mating across populations.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 30 Sep. 2013
• China’s success redounds to American companies, and so will American success to redound to the Chinese.
  — John Tamny, Forbes, 4 Apr. 2021
• Whether responsibility for such a consequential move will redound to their favor remains to be seen.
  — Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, 5 June 2017
• But the economic and political ripple effects of the war soon redounded to the energy giants’ benefit.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 14 Apr. 2023
• Now that Republicans have reversed their position once again, also in a way that happens to redound to their political benefit, the answer seems a little more clear.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 8 Feb. 2018
• That benefit would redound worldwide, shaping a far larger share of global climate pollution.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 16 Oct. 2021
• Uber’s recent misfortunes appear to be redounding to Lyft’s benefit.
  — Maya Kosoff, The Hive, 15 Sep. 2017

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024