How to Use resonator in a Sentence

resonator

noun
  • Weirdly, the goal would be to not need a resonator.
    — Ethan Millman, HollywoodReporter, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Acoustic resonators might even test the bounds of the quantum realm.
    — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Stripping things down to his voice and his resonator really appealed to me.
    — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 11 Oct. 2024
  • The drummer plays resonator guitar when called upon; a backup singer is also a flautist.
    — Dan Deluca, Philly.com, 17 June 2018
  • The core of Dr Adib’s invention is called a broadband resonator.
    — The Economist, 17 Oct. 2020
  • That light is then channeled into a narrow beam by a resonator, and then directed at a target.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 11 Mar. 2016
  • The company shipped its first resonators in 2007.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 23 Apr. 2019
  • Some are clawhammer banjos, which is an open-back banjo, and some are bluegrass banjos, which have a resonator back.
    — Rob Ledonne, Billboard, 10 Aug. 2017
  • Once in the resonator, the light cannot return to the fiber without somehow changing direction.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 27 June 2018
  • To keep stray bits of energy from messing with the resonator, the whole device is kept very close to absolute zero.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 31 Jan. 2020
  • Each resonator is connected to each other resonator via a tunable coupler.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 19 May 2025
  • Its hollow neck acts as a sound conduit, channeling audio to a second resonator right by the player’s ear.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 21 Jan. 2026
  • The researchers sandwiched it between two 2-cm2 resonators.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Jan. 2016
  • The score is just a range of guitars — acoustic, a resonator guitar and an electric guitar with effects — and two cellos.
    — Melinda Newman, Billboard, 29 Jan. 2021
  • When researchers have bothered to measure the dynamic range of nanoscale resonators, the results have been pretty poor.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Mar. 2018
  • This eliminates the need for a discrete resonator on the board and simplifies system design.
    — Dave Altavilla, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The very short pulses are generated by guiding light in a little ring, called a microring resonator, in a glass chip.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 30 Mar. 2018
  • The resonator is so stable because the silicon from which it’s crafted has been doped with phosphorus, Tabrizian says.
    — Perri Thaler, IEEE Spectrum, 17 Dec. 2025
  • This is important because the critical piece of the hardware is a little glass ball, called a whispering gallery mode resonator.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 27 June 2018
  • In this mode, the signal wave does not couple into the resonator, and passes through a silicon waveguide without losses.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 7 May 2018
  • By routing the intake through the fender, the sound of the engine switching to high-revving cams is amplified because the fender acts as a resonator.
    — Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 18 Nov. 2020
  • After the system reaches equilibrium, the resonator units are read out to obtain the solution.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 19 May 2025
  • In between the anode and collector are hollow structures called cavity resonators.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Oct. 2020
  • The hybrid approach reduces strain on the resonator while improving overall performance.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Chips are divided into a layer with the qubits, a layer with resonators for readout, and multiple layers of wiring for input and output.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 21 Aug. 2024
  • This is not the first time NEMS resonators have been produced using molybdenum disulfide.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Mar. 2018
  • That's tricky, because the resonance frequency of most resonators changes with temperature.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 21 May 2018
  • Similarly, the writeup also compares moonquake vibrations to those of a tuning fork, which is a kind of acoustic resonator.
    — Jessica Coulon, Popular Mechanics, 18 Oct. 2022
  • At one unnerving moment, Chase blows on an Aztec death whistle—a ceramic resonator that can evoke a roaring wind or a screaming crowd.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2021
  • One lyre-like instrument from Central Africa features a resonator fashioned from an actual human skull.
    — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 7 Oct. 2022

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