How to Use reverberant in a Sentence

reverberant

adjective
  • The bassist Ronnie Ware plays long, snorting and reverberant tones.
    — Martin Johnson, WSJ, 17 Apr. 2018
  • In this reverberant space, though, consonants could have used more projection.
    — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 6 Aug. 2019
  • As the spaceship Enterprise flies past the screen, the voice sounds as though it was recorded in a very reverberant cathedral.
    — Trevor Cox, Discover Magazine, 28 Jan. 2015
  • Your accuracy has to be high because in a reverberant space, the room will cover up a certain amount of sins, but in a dead space that's just not the case.
    — Eric E. Harrison, Arkansas Online, 9 Apr. 2023
  • In the car that day Ruiz played Gregorian chants, reverberant voices that harken to a Catholic monastery.
    — Chris Kenning, courier-journal.com, 20 Aug. 2020
  • Their contribution to the pulse of this reverberant tale cannot be overestimated.
    — David L. Coddoncontributor, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The new track is an adrenaline rush from start to finish, with the 39-year-old rap queen spitting both fast and slow over an eerie, reverberant vocal sample.
    — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 25 Mar. 2022
  • All benefit from a crisply reverberant acoustic in which an instrument’s timbre is nearly as important as the music played on it.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2019
  • The low, reverberant sound produced by Martin’s bass was reminiscent of a rumbling car muffler.
    — Bill Friskics-Warren, BostonGlobe.com, 26 May 2018
  • Everything coexists in what feels like a physical acoustic space — rich and reverberant, but also distant, held at a remove, seen through a dense fog.
    — New York Times, 9 June 2022
  • Writerly strokes may occasionally feel broad, but like animate oil paintings, their effect is rich and reverberant.
    — Joan Frank, Washington Post, 3 May 2023
  • This is an astonishing moment, eerie and reverberant with unspoken meaning.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
  • For example, a scene that finds Norman in a shallow pool of water requires an understanding of this reverberant space, with feet splashing through the area.
    — Aaron Neuwirth, Variety, 16 Aug. 2021
  • Other halls may have a richer, more reverberant acoustic, although Disney’s is still uncommonly fine.
    — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
  • But let your mind wander, and Carlile and Doran’s digital wrangling blurs into a colorful, reverberant hum.
    — Dash Lewis, Pitchfork, 22 May 2026
  • In a matter of days, the world of contemporary art went from a reverberant global network to a ghost town, sheltering in place as the coronavirus endangers our cities and our livelihoods.
    — Jason Farago, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2020
  • Much of it was lost to the audience, since reverberant amplification gave heroic heft to Blanchett’s voice at the cost of intelligibility.
    — Classical Music Critic, Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2026
  • As with Brown’s other albums, the rapper opts for non-standard rhythmic backing tracks, with hints of free jazz, sparkling atmospherics, weeping strings, reverberant shouts and squishy retro video-game bleeps and blorps.
    — John Adamian, courant.com, 8 Nov. 2019
  • And her spare, reverberant retrospective now at the Whitney Museum of American Art time-traveled me straight back to it.
    — Holland Cotter, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Meaning coalesces not only through reams of dialogue but also through expressive glances, reverberant silences and many atmospheric shots of Kafuku’s car rolling down roads and highways.
    — Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2021
  • Words barely comprehended, a panoply of percussive sounds and the reverberant electronic ambience all contributed to producing an uncanny sensation of being in the remove of nature.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2022
  • Duane Eddy, who broke new ground in pop music in the 1950s with a reverberant, staccato style of guitar playing that became known as twang, died on Tuesday in Franklin, Tenn.
    — Bill Friskics-Warren, New York Times, 1 May 2024

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