How to Use resonance in a Sentence

resonance

noun
Definition of resonancenext
Synonyms for resonancenext
  • His story didn't have much resonance with the audience.
  • One goal: To find resonance for today from the lessons of the past.
    — oregonlive, 16 Jan. 2023
  • The reaction and the resonance to the film, at this scale, did surprise me, yes.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • This November, the 90th anniversary of the Holodomor took on fresh resonance.
    — Oleksandra Gaidai, CNN, 6 Dec. 2022
  • There’s a resonance in the call to break out of the traditional studio and label systems.
    — Ali Aksu, Rolling Stone, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Its resonances with Beau’s experiences in the rest of the film are omnipresent but rarely exact.
    — Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2023
  • The resonance of the story with facing the perils of a dark and unknown wood, of nature itself, is pretty clear.
    — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
  • After Roth’s clarification, the M&M test took on a new resonance for those in the know.
    — Doug MacK, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 July 2023
  • Lyrics can be a very simple brushstroke of a sentence, and the music will expand it and add great resonance and meaning.
    — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 23 July 2023
  • But none of those toys, no matter how loved, have the cultural resonance of Barbie.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 13 July 2023
  • Fetterman, though, has made his points in pungent, showy ways that gives them more resonance.
    — Rich Lowry, National Review, 15 Jan. 2024
  • And the resonance of those 19 shows feel, in talking to fans, like those were historical events that furthers the idea of what that band is like live onstage.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The Colorado Springs shooting was sure to bring special resonance to Sunday’s events.
    — Thomas Peipert, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Nov. 2022
  • The resonance of Creative Time’s public art projects is profound.
    — Zachary Schwartz, Vogue, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Therefore, the resonance of that passage has also changed.
    — Kathryn Shattuck, New York Times, 20 May 2023
  • Thirdly, the key to brand resonance at New York Fashion Week is its mastery of storytelling.
    — Jeetendr Sehdev, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
  • That's not to say that White House Plumbers is devoid of contemporary resonance.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Mug shots get filed, but their resonance bends toward fleeting.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2023
  • But the tides created by its resonance with Dione, at least on paper, do not seem to be sufficient to explain its ocean.
    — WIRED, 24 Dec. 2023
  • Dawidoff also finds deep resonance in the way the past haunts Newhallville today.
    — Mark Oppenheimer, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2022
  • But what did compel me to do this as a book were these surprising resonances with what’s happening in our country.
    — Daniel Strauss, The New Republic, 26 Apr. 2023
  • The emotional resonance comes not from the dramatic wartime events, but rather from the long-term effects of Winton’s efforts many years later.
    — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2024
  • The emotional resonance comes not from the dramatic wartime events, but rather from the long-term effects of Winton’s efforts many, many years later.
    — Katie Walsh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Mar. 2024

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