How to Use resonance in a Sentence
resonance
noun- His story didn't have much resonance with the audience.
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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 -
The choice of a male role has poetic resonance for Mey.
— Daniel Bromfield, The Mercury News, 25 Nov. 2024 -
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 -
Bronny grew up in Cleveland so scoring the points there had some unique resonance.
— Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024 -
This November, the 90th anniversary of the Holodomor took on fresh resonance.
— Oleksandra Gaidai, CNN, 6 Dec. 2022 -
Modern birds like peacocks and peahens also have a crest that produces resonance.
— Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 22 Nov. 2024
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