How to Use resonant in a Sentence

resonant

adjective
  • 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
  • For now, though, Mr. Trump and the 2020 election are far more resonant.
    New York Times, 28 Feb. 2021
  • 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
  • Very resonant and poignant performance of one of the band's best and most well-known songs.
    Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 8 Nov. 2020
  • Though novel in form and plan, the Nielson is resonant with the great buildings of the past, and Ms. Lin’s own past.
    Michael J. Lewis, WSJ, 31 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • Those racial stereotypes were resonant with the same stereotypes of slaves and folks during the Jim Crow era.
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2020
  • Looking to the legal horizon, the Supreme Court could find this plan resonant.
    Aron Solomon, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2023
  • That moves the system's resonant frequency out of the range that squeals.
    Mike Allen, Popular Mechanics, 1 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • The remaining stories are largely free of genre trappings, and these are among the most resonant in the book.
    Bill Sheehan, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2019
  • This photograph was chosen as one of the 15 most resonant Nat Geo images of the decade.
    Lynn Johnson, National Geographic, 5 Feb. 2020
  • 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
  • With his short Afro and deep, resonant voice, Glenn-Copeland felt alienated from the students around him.
    Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2020
  • Every time we are shown a close-up of the women, something new and resonant – in their eyes, their half smiles – is revealed.
    Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • Here, the author, 66, reflects on four of his most resonant works, including his latest, Klara and the Sun.
    Seija Rankin, EW.com, 2 Mar. 2021
  • The images of police violence against the Black community were resonant in the year of the death of George Floyd and others.
    Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2021
  • The plays themselves are deep and resonant and beautiful and moving.
    Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 6 June 2022
  • This production of one of the most difficult works in the Sondheim canon made an abstract musical about the opening up of Japan to Western trade in the 19th century vivid, exuberant and provocatively resonant.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024

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