How to Use dissonant in a Sentence

dissonant

adjective

• This was played with élan over dissonant swirling in the strings.
  — Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Nov. 2023
• That 30-year curve is part of the dissonant music of Roland’s life.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2022
• The flash of a police car appears, then a dissonant siren sounds.
  — Dave Eggers, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2020
• The answer so far has been a pretty weird and dissonant one.
  — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2024
• Or might just scare people a little bit too much, or are just too dissonant and too hard to take?
  — Michaela Zee, Variety, 29 Feb. 2024
• Horns have two notes, which is what creates that dissonant horn sound.
  — Ray Magliozzi, courant.com, 15 July 2019
• Then there are the dissonant piano chords, the 808s and dramatic strings.
  — Raisa Bruner, Time, 30 Aug. 2019
• This is yet another season that brings a dissonant clash of hope and fear, chaos and progress.
  — Susanna Schrobsdorff, Time, 21 Mar. 2021
• Even when the hooks are sweet or seductive, her work is still dissonant and provocative.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 30 May 2022
• At the end of the second movement, falling glissandos in the strings provoked a dissonant buildup, which gave way to a lush melody.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Apr. 2022
• The bear can be seen wandering around the apartment and at one point went to a piano, putting its paws on the keys playing a few loud and dissonant notes.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 6 June 2017
• Most people who compose for film think the music and the actions of the people in the film have to be consonant or dissonant.
  — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 9 Feb. 2024
• In the same way, RZA kind of introduced a dissonant element to hip-hop.
  — Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 19 Jan. 2022
• There are bluesy themes but played over dissonant harmonies.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Jan. 2022
• Ah Gau and Hwee Bin were drowned out by the singing, a dissonant chorus of residents’ voices slipping in and out of synch.
  — Rachel Heng, The New Yorker, 31 May 2021
• There is a minor dissonant note in these results above.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 7 Sep. 2012
• The concluding unresolved dissonant splat of a chord seemed as sensible a way to end the piece as any.
  — James R. Oestreich, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2018
• Join the internet on a dissonant journey through the origin story of the cashew below.
  — Ashley Hoffman, Time, 12 Sep. 2019
• To the ear, the multiple frequencies can sound a bit like dissonant keys on a piano being struck all at once.
  — Josh Lederman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 13 Oct. 2017
• Later, both motifs sound against a pileup of dissonant chords, which is like a wall through which neither can pass.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2022
• The smell of vinegar, brash and dissonant, wafted out of my childhood kitchen often, tickling my nose.
  — G. Daniela Galarza, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2023
• Last year, the Tour picked up a complementary voice, albeit a dissonant one.
  — Fluto Shinzawa, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2018
• But in the process, El has been reduced to a dissonant mix of heroic self-sacrifice and homicidal rage.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 6 July 2022
• And then that huge, dissonant, gorgeous, ugly guitar chord that begins the song.
  — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2023
• The music is equal parts dissonant, jarring, and melodic, sometimes sounding more like a sci-fi score than an opera.
  — Paul Ross, Popular Mechanics, 27 July 2018
• There’s little in the way of comfort and joy to be found in the story of a child freezing on an urban corner, nor in the spare and sometimes dissonant harmonies in the music.
  — Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 12 Dec. 2019
• Trump’s Twitter finger taps out a dissonant melody and cranks it up to 11 to drown out reality.
  — Brooke Gladstone, Slate Magazine, 18 May 2017
• Perhaps mapping the footprints of the Power Five offers the best way to show dissonant these conference brands will soon sound.
  — Jim Sergent, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2023
• And a concurrence by the three liberal Justices adds a dissonant note to what might otherwise have been a moment of rare harmony.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
• The new series is emotionally hollow, tonally dissonant and yells its themes at the audience like an unhinged political podcast.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024