How to Use resilience in a Sentence

resilience

noun
  • Cold temperatures caused the material to lose resilience.
  • The rescue workers showed remarkable resilience in dealing with the difficult conditions.
  • That speaks to what has been a theme of this year – the resilience of this team.
    Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Sep. 2017
  • All of this amounted to quite the gut check to test the Saints’ resilience.
    Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 15 Sep. 2019
  • This tale of friendship and resilience will warm the hearts of kids from two to 102.
    Megan Barber, Curbed, 12 Dec. 2018
  • This is a book that speaks to the resilience of the human spirit.
    John J. Kelly, Detroit Free Press, 7 Dec. 2020
  • If anything, the Aztecs showed a fresh kind of resilience.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2021
  • The problem then was not the lack of response but your lack of resilience.
    Byjenny Abamu, Fortune, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Lawrence and the Jaguars showed tremendous resilience in the second half.
    Tyler Dragon, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2023
  • Cau says there is some proof of resilience on this front as well.
    Aleksandra Gjorgievska, Bloomberg.com, 21 Feb. 2018
  • In it’s place is guile, guts, and a legendary resilience.
    Rohan Nadkarni, SI.com, 11 June 2019
  • Your sense of self, your strength and resilience — no one can take these away from you.
    Anna Pulley, RedEye Chicago, 26 Mar. 2018
  • Our team showed great resilience and fought our way to the playoffs.
    Alysha Tsuji, For The Win, 9 May 2018
  • The jays may offer the best hope of resilience for piñon-juniper forests.
    Sara Van Note, WIRED, 6 Nov. 2022
  • The image being hailed as a symbol of the city’s resilience and hope?
    Lale Arikoglu, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 June 2017
  • In the midst of so much present grief, these story lines gave us faith in the planet's resilience.
    Jordan Salama, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2021
  • The need for local resilience in the face climate chaos is growing all the time.
    David Roberts, Vox, 30 Nov. 2018
  • Even through tough times, Estridge’s resilience kept him afloat.
    Claire Rafford, The Indianapolis Star, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The Spurs had plenty of chances to display their resilience.
    Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 28 Oct. 2019
  • So the resilience needed to bounce back from a two-sack season hasn’t been hard to muster.
    Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 3 Jan. 2022
  • But the story — one of courage, danger and resilience — is far from over.
    Thomas Maresca and John Bacon, USA TODAY, 9 July 2018
  • Schools are trying to start the work now to help students build resilience.
    Sonali Kohli, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2020
  • Connection might be the key to resilience in tough times.
    Courtney McGee, baltimoresun.com, 7 Sep. 2021
  • In any case, the show had a resilience that no one back then could have predicted.
    Neil Genzlinger, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Aug. 2023
  • There is still hope, however, in the resilience of love.
    Ajay Verghese, The Conversation, 12 Aug. 2022
  • The church also wants to point to resilience in the face of this tragedy and does not want Bowie High to be defined by the shooting.
    Nicole Lopez, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Apr. 2024
  • The surge has surprised experts with its strength and resilience.
    Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Still, now six seasons and five teams in, there is something to be said for resilience.
    Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 26 Oct. 2019
  • Her revelations and anguish become a testament to the power of music and deep resilience of the human spirit.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Highlighting the resilience of SentinelOne’s offerings, management noted that there has been a shift in sentiment after the outage, with growing interest in the company’s platform from some of the world’s largest organizations.
    Tipranks.com Staff, CNBC, 8 Sep. 2024

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