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How to use resound in a sentence

13 example sentences · verb, noun

Resound means to make (sounds), or to speak (words), loudly or reverberatingly. Example: “The street resounded with the noise of the children’s game.”

Examples of resound by meaning

verbTo repeat (another's words, opinions, etc.).

  • You know many Mormons may not like Reverend Falwell, but they'll certainly resound his sentiments.1980 December 27, K. F. Huck, quoting David Braley, “The Spirit Of The Beehive”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 23, page 8

verbOf a place: to reverberate with sound or noise.

  • The street resounded with the noise of the children’s game.

verbEspecially of a musical instrument: to make a (deep or reverberating) sound; also, to make sounds continuously.

  • The sound of the brass band resounded through the town.

verbTo echo or repeat (a sound).

  • Any new alarms, from any patient, will resound the alarm tone.1992, Health Devices, volume 21, Philadelphia, Pa.: Emergency Care Research Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 117, column 2

More sentences with resound

  • When Audre Lorde speaks of her Amazon lovers from Dahomey, the words resound lesbianically.1997, Jennifer Rycenga, “The Perils and Pleasures of Being an Out Lesbian Academic; or Speech from the Scaffold”, in Beth Mintz, Esther D.…. From the entry lesbianically
  • Show thyself, arise, and let Thy Voice resound, Thou mutest among all the mute!1956, Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins (?, translators), Lion Feuchtwanger (German author), Raquel: The Jewess of Toledo (translation of…. From the entry mute
  • Their battle-cry ‘Merdeka’ which means freedom resounds throughout the length and breadth of Asia.1946 April, P. Madhavan Nair, “Indonesia: The Land of Promise”, in Kedar Nath Chatterji, editor, The Modern Review, volume LXXIX, number 4…. From the entry merdeka
  • But it would resound in the conservative media's echo chamber.2007, Susan Faludi, The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America. From the entry echo chamber
  • The eviction itself went relatively smoothly, but the hard feelings it generated resound deep inside Israeli army barracks.2007 August 16, Tim McGirk, “The West Bank: Mission Critical”, in TIME, archived from the original on 06 Dec 2008. From the entry hard feelings
  • Those Turks who stopped to argue, argue no more. `Advance, Australia!' resounded through the bushes. `Into the cows!1916, John Butler Cooper, Coo-oo-ee!, page 262. From the entry bog in
  • The two kendōkas were engaged in a fierce duel, and the wooden swords they held with both hands quivered with each clash of blades that resounded across the gym.2025, Ethan Cole, “Kendo Gym”, in Peerless Genius System, volume I. From the entry kendōka
  • So he was, but he was also repeating that passionate liberal critique which had resounded, often fortissimo, in British debate when Indian nationalism was still a half-formed dream.2017 September 7, Ferdinand Mount, “Umbrageousness”, in London Review of Books. From the entry fortissimo
  • One must simply see that, Hear that noise, How on every side- or lower or higher- Like the country chattering of boys, Echoes and resounds the birds' dawn choir.1987, Ivan Savel, Light of the hearth: poems. From the entry dawn choir

Meaning of resound

  1. verb To make (sounds), or to speak (words), loudly or reverberatingly.
  2. verb Of a place: to cause (a sound) to reverberate; to echo.
  3. verb To praise or spread the fame of (someone or something) with the voice or the sound of musical instruments; to celebrate, to extol; also, to declare (someone) to be a certain thing.

Full definition of resound

Questions about resound in a sentence

How do you use resound in a sentence?
Resound is used as a verb and noun. For example: “The street resounded with the noise of the children’s game.”
What is a short sentence with resound?
“But it would resound in the conservative media's echo chamber.”
What does resound mean?
Resound means to make (sounds), or to speak (words), loudly or reverberatingly.

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