Sample sentences for REPERCUSSIONS

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Definition

indirect effects of an action — typically negative effects

Much more rarely, repercussions may be used in place of reverberations or echoes to reference reflected sound. It can also (usually in the singular form) reference a rebound or movement back from an impact. Other more specialized senses exist in physics and music.

The political repercussions of the scandal are still unclear.

repercussions = indirect effects of an action — typically negative effects

The loss of so many jobs is expected to have significant repercussions on the local economy.
The repercussions of the Iranian Revolution are still being felt throughout the world.
It's about the repercussions of what you did.
Jay Asher -- Thirteen Reasons Why

repercussions = indirect effects of an action — typically negative effects

He had the feeling of something that had started normally and had then brought great, outsized, giant repercussions.
Ernest Hemingway -- For Whom the Bell Tolls
So you think you pass as human, that you can exist here without any repercussions.
Marissa Meyer -- Cinder
Thus it was a purely psychological reaction-as if the dwindling of the plague must have repercussions in all fields.
Albert Camus -- The Plague
And I would have volunteered to die instead of Caleb .... if not for the fact that I really want to see them suffer the repercussions.
Veronica Roth -- Allegiant
We waited for repercussions.
Richard Wright -- Black Boy
But an affair with a man like Shade's bound to have tremendous repercussions.
Nora Roberts -- Summer Pleasures
You can imagine the psychological repercussions of this.
Robert MacNeil and William Crane -- Do You Speak American?
These are the repercussions.
Veronica Roth -- Insurgent
They are the poor that the army knows it can slaughter without repercussion.
Rick Bragg -- All Over but the Shoutin'

(editor's note: The suffix "-sion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in admission from admit, discussion from discuss, and invasion from invade.)

So, if a kid comes to you to complain about being picked on, what are the repercussions for the bully?
Jodi Picoult -- Nineteen Minutes
Trying hard not to think about possible repercussions, Vlad forced himself to swallow and met Kristoff's serious gaze with a knowing smirk.
Heather Brewer -- Tenth Grade Bleeds
—From The Roots and Repercussions of Amor Deliria Nervosa on Cognitive Functioning, 4th edition, by Dr. Phillip Berryman
Lauren Oliver -- Delirium
Much of it would have repercussions for Liesel Meminger.
Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief
Yours, Anne TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1944 The minor run-in with Dussel had several repercussions, for which he had only himself to blame.
Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl
There couldn't possibly be any repercussions, the lynchers thought.
Kurt Vonnegut -- Slaughterhouse-Five
I felt that I had, and I was very curious as to the repercussions, almost, but not quite, as curious as I was concerning the motives of my informant.
Roger Zelazny -- My Name is Legion

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