RESONATE in a Sentence

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22 example sentences for RESONATE, such as:

1. His voice resonated in the empty church.
2. His voice sounded oddly resonant in the empty room.
3. Father Purdon developed the text with resonant assurance.
4. The bass guitar began to thump so loudly that it resonated in my head.
5. It was resonant, deeper, and his words fell swiftly as though hurried with some inner urgency.

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 Meanings and Examples of RESONATE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
resonate
 v.  To have an effect or impact; to influence; to engender support
Classic Sentence:
1  His voice was oddly pleasant to the ear, the well-modulated voice of a gentleman, resonant and overlaid with the flat slow drawl of the Charlestonian.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
2  It was resonant, deeper, and his words fell swiftly as though hurried with some inner urgency.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
3  While his low resonant voice went on, desolate, with a feeling she could not understand, Scarlett clutched at words here and there, trying to make sense of them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
4  Ashley began to read the prayers and all heads bowed as his resonant, beautifully modulated voice rolled out the brief and dignified words.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
5  She wondered incuriously who it was and, when a man's voice, resonant and drawling, rose above Pitty's funereal whispering, she knew.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
6  If their resonant hilarity could never be hers, she contributed a note of easy elegance more valuable to Mattie Gormer than the louder passages of the band.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 5
7  The resonant voice of the Hungarian was about to prevail in ridicule of the spurious lutes of the romantic painters when Segouin shepherded his party into politics.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In AFTER THE RACE
8  Father Purdon developed the text with resonant assurance.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In GRACE
9  'Good morning,' she replied in a voice not loud but resonant, and with a sidelong glance at Arkady, who gave her a friendly smile, she went gently away.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
10  The handsome young Emperor Alexander, in the uniform of the Horse Guards, wearing a cocked hat with its peaks front and back, with his pleasant face and resonant though not loud voice, attracted everyone's attention.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII
11  And then suddenly, in the very dead of the night, there came a sound to my ears, clear, resonant, and unmistakable.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6. Baskerville Hall
12  Having finished her morning tea she went to the ballroom, which she particularly liked for its loud resonance, and began singing her solfeggio.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XXIII
13  Standing as usual in the middle of the hall and choosing the place where the resonance was best, Natasha began to sing her mother's favorite song.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER X
14  The leiter-wagons contained great, square boxes, with handles of thick rope; these were evidently empty by the ease with which the Slovaks handled them, and by their resonance as they were roughly moved.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
Example Sentence:
1  His voice sounded oddly resonant in the empty room.
2  We felt privileged to be the first group of Western visitors to enter the historic palace, resonant with past conflicts.
3  The deep, resonant voice of the actor James Earl Jones makes him particularly effective when he appears on stage.
4  In physics, resonance is the phenomenon of producing large amplitude of vibrations by a small periodic driving force.
5  The ideas of order, security, family, religion and country had the same resonance for them as for Michael.
6  His voice resonated in the empty church.
7  The bass guitar began to thump so loudly that it resonated in my head.
8  With even Mr. Maduro lamenting the tragedy during a speech on national TV, the young woman's death has resonated in part because she was a pageant winner in a country that has long prized its production of more Miss Universe winners than any other country.