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Example sentences for "resounding"

Lexicographically close words:
resorting; resorts; resoun; resound; resounded; resoundingly; resounds; resource; resourceful; resourcefulness
  1. No Catholic historical work of the nineteenth century, and certainly no attack on the Reformation since Bossuet's Variations of Protestantism, obtained such resounding success or led to so much controversy.

  2. For the first time since he had come to Seldon Prep, Reed Markham was supremely happy as, with the plaudits of the crowd resounding in his ears, he toiled up the ice-coated hill to the starting place.

  3. There was a resounding impact and both defense men left their feet, bumping jarringly to ice.

  4. Mr. Mablethorpe to his wife, as the lady's cheeks distended themselves in a resounding blast.

  5. After five resounding back-fires the engine still failed to exhibit any signs of abiding vitality, although the accumulator had been reinforced by the magneto.

  6. Then Mrs. Elsmere, touched with remorse, would catch her by the neck and give her a resounding kiss, which perhaps puzzled Catherine no less than her sarcasm of a minute before.

  7. Will all these resounding projects, though they enable us to cheat ourselves, enable us to cheat the icy fate which rules us and our globe, wandering forsaken through the vast silence of the heavens?

  8. Meanwhile Sybil had entered the room, which was blazing with light and resounding with music.

  9. The iron door clanged loudly to, resounding through the dismal arches.

  10. Two separate, sudden and resounding garglings almost startled her to thought, but she resisted, and presently she was alone in the strange room.

  11. Bart, who had let the story lose nothing in the telling, gave him a resounding thump on the back as he came in.

  12. But it was not in the nature of things that this feeling should long persist amid such a buoyant, boisterous gathering of young fellows and before long the cars of the train were resounding with jests and laughter.

  13. This was immediately followed by the release of the weight on the side of the boat, its rocking in the opposite direction, a resounding slap on the water which threw a shower of spray over my head, in my eyes and ears.

  14. As a signal that we were recognized, he saluted by humping his back, lifting his broad tail and striking the water a resounding slap, thus throwing a fountain of spray high into the air.

  15. The family bowed civilly to them as they passed, on which they, ducking their heads faster and further than the occasion demanded, banged them all three together with a resounding thwack.

  16. Through all the days of the synod's meeting, daily throngs on Society Hill were addressed by the Tennents and other "hot gospelers" of the revival, and churches and private houses were resounding with revival hymns and exhortations.

  17. Words such as these resounding from pulpit after pulpit, multiplied and disseminated by means of the press, acted on by representative bodies of churches, becoming embodied in anti-dueling societies, exorcised the foul spirit from the land.

  18. Still the old tempests rage around the mountains, And ocean's billows as of old appear; The roaring wood and the resounding fountains Time has not silenced in his long career, For Nature is the same as ever.

  19. A resounding thump on the back with a harlequin's sword, or a rattling blow with a bladder half full of dried pease or corn, answers a very good purpose.

  20. In spite of its resounding name, our new dwelling had not a palatial aspect.

  21. I made a shrewd guess that ’twas no vital sickness that had come upon him, and remembering how I had once before seen a man cured of some such an ailment, without further ado I fetched him a resounding whack upon the thigh.

  22. Those gentry heard the savage cries resounding through the woods until their echoes faded away in the distance.

  23. He finished with a resounding slap, and looked up with a light in his eyes.

  24. But there are flashes rending the sky above the embankments on all sides, and the sight is so fearsome of these jets of resounding flame that overhang our pit and its swarming shadows that no one responds to the madman's saying.

  25. Volleys are let loose so monstrously resounding that one feels himself annihilated by the mere sound of the downpoured thunder of these great constellations of destruction that form in the sky.

  26. Their report is like that of the 75's, but louder, and it has a prolonged and resounding echo, like thunder reverberating among mountains.

  27. Nothing is stirring there; and our shells that burst in places with wide spouts of foam like huge billows seem to deliver their resounding blows upon a great breakwater, ruined and abandoned.

  28. In the tavern a resounding tumult smote the air so that the window-panes were rattling.

  29. A passenger steamer comes from the opposite side and whistles--the resounding echo of the whistle loses itself in the woods, in the gorges of the mountainous bank, and dies away there.

  30. A resounding basso shouted as through a speaking-trumpet: "See how you've fastened this board, you blind devil?

  31. As before, nobody was in the garden, and the resounding chatter of the bells was still roaring in the air.

  32. The resounding cries of the hound echoed through the woods, seemingly at a distance of a half mile, and a little to the east of south.

  33. Should they call to her, or should Nick emit his resounding signal whistle, she might be awakened, provided only such a brief space separated them, but the chances were scarcely one in a thousand that they would be so fortunate.

  34. At that moment Bowser, who had trotted into the woods ahead, gave utterance to a hoarse, resounding bay, which sounded as though his voice had also changed, for it ended in a dismal squeaking howl that made all laugh.

  35. Only now we have formulated them into a noble maxim, which you will hear daily resounding in the pulpit and the press and in the street: "The cure of democracy is more democracy.

  36. If he is swept off his feet by a burst of martial music and resounding patriotism, so are they, and it is just as easy for them to recover as it is for him.

  37. Loud shouts and plaudits fill the shore, the noise Resounding echoes to the heavenly thrones.

  38. These boasting words to the resounding air “Brave issuing--Cænis, shall I bear thee so?


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "resounding" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    boom; booming; deafening; deep; echo; echoing; emphatic; fat; forceful; forte; fortissimo; full; growl; grumble; grumbling; insistent; lingering; loud; noisy; ornery; pealing; persistent; piercing; plangent; rebound; resonant; resounding; reverberation; ringing; rotund; rumble; rumbling; sonorous; sounding; stentorian; thunder; thundering; thunderous; vibrant