How to Use resonance in a Sentence

resonance

noun
  • His story didn't have much resonance with the audience.
  • And it is based off of this idea of resonance.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 9 Jan. 2026
  • The resonance of it pushed this to the top of the line for us.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 1 Dec. 2025
  • That idea has deep resonance for me.
    — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Not to beat a dead horse here, but oh my goodness, the resonance.
    — Rose Maura Lorre, Vulture, 18 June 2021
  • This is why resonance compounds in a way reach doesn’t.
    — Stephanie Hind, Rolling Stone, 1 June 2026
  • To riff on one of Jepsen’s lyrics, there’s no drug like resonance.
    — Rachelvoronacote, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • The protests have found resonance on the country’s far right.
    — New York Times, 31 Dec. 2020
  • That truth takes on new resonance in this year of the pandemic.
    — Mary Schmich, chicagotribune.com, 25 Dec. 2020
  • Some of that type of storytelling may have even more resonance around the show.
    — Danielle Turchiano, Variety, 24 Nov. 2021
  • Or there is something in the artist’s life that creates resonance for us.
    — Zain Jaffer, Rolling Stone, 26 Sep. 2024
  • That requires either broad scale from many, or deep resonance from a few.
    — Daren Smith, IndieWire, 18 Mar. 2026
  • There’s a lot of resonance there right now for anyone who is marginalized.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 26 Nov. 2024
  • There’s resonance in a body that forces families to deal with death.
    — Karen Heller, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Why, then, does the show have all the resonance of a dime-store, plywood knockoff?
    — Graham Hillard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 7 Mar. 2025
  • When a band or artist becomes part of friendship lore, that’s resonance.
    — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2025
  • In academia, this story has also found some resonance.
    — Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2025
  • For all the real-life resonance, the devil of the book is in the research.
    — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2021
  • Hee’s felt it through a resonance board made with a Bluetooth speaker on it.
    — Frank Digiacomo, Billboard, 30 Aug. 2023
  • After a decade of soaring stock prices, this has some resonance with the public.
    — The Economist, 28 Nov. 2019
  • Part of the physics of resonance is that when two forms vibrate together, both are changed.
    — Ginny Whitelaw, Forbes, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Here, the idea is to create an image resonance, where images fall in.
    — Pablo Larios, Artforum, 10 June 2026
  • The reaction and the resonance to the film, at this scale, did surprise me, yes.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Mar. 2023
  • The latest edition may be glossed up with star power, but there’s no resonance.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 18 June 2026
  • That’s the kind of resonance Sinise was looking for with the program.
    — Chase Jordan october 28, Charlotte Observer, 28 Oct. 2025
  • There probably is some resonance to where the moon and stars were on the day that I was born.
    — Kathryn Shattuck, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2025
  • Those artists largely sang their own songs, but certain lyrics and sounds took on a special resonance.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2026
  • At the same time, there’s real thematic resonance to the brief scene.
    — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 15 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • Bichir believes that Eleanor's plight has resonance in the real world.
    — Clark Collis, EW.com, 20 Sep. 2022

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