Sample Sentences for
resonate
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    She developed a distinctive songwriting and vocal style that would later resonate with audiences worldwide.
    resonate = evoke shared feelings
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    The guitar works by placing tight strings above a large hollow body that resonates the sounds the strings make.
    resonates = reinforces (adding volume, richness, and depth)
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    The symbolic resonances are endless, Hazel Grace.  (source)
    resonances = feelings or ideas brought to mind
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    The resonant voice rose and the words seemed to be all around them so that Meg felt that she could almost reach out and touch them:  (source)
    resonant = deep and rich
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    In recent years, Jeanne has visited many dozens of schools, from California and Oregon to Texas and Washington, D.C., and she has discovered that, for readers of many backgrounds, the story of a young girl who finds herself separated from the larger society for reasons she does not yet understand can have a strong contemporary resonance.  (source)
    resonance = impactful effect by bringing sympathetic or reinforcing feelings or memories to mind
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    Her voice resonated as she spoke.  (source)
    resonated = sounded rich -- perhaps reinforced by surrounding acoustics
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    She forced these words to resonate, to stick.†  (source)
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    The train whistle blares, the sound resonating in my chest.†  (source)
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    Instead the story resonates with the richness of distant antecedents, with the power of accumulated myth.  (source)
    resonates = evokes shared feelings or beliefs
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    Very little receptivity to the resonances of the future.†  (source)
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    ROPER You belittle yourself, sir, this was not practical; (Resonantly) this was moral!†  (source)
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    She was sharing it with Caspar Goodwood, who stood looking at her, a few yards off, and whose footfall on the unresonant turf, as he came near, she had not heard.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unresonant means not and reverses the meaning of resonant. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    "What you need to learn, children," she always said, in her resonant, precise voice, "is the difference between right and wrong in every area of life."  (source)
    resonant = deep and rich
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