How to Use reverberant in a Sentence

reverberant

adjective

• As the spaceship Enterprise flies past the screen, the voice sounds as though it was recorded in a very reverberant cathedral.
  — Trevor Cox, Discover Magazine, 28 Jan. 2015
• In the car that day Ruiz played Gregorian chants, reverberant voices that harken to a Catholic monastery.
  — Chris Kenning, courier-journal.com, 20 Aug. 2020
• The bassist Ronnie Ware plays long, snorting and reverberant tones.
  — Martin Johnson, WSJ, 17 Apr. 2018
• Your accuracy has to be high because in a reverberant space, the room will cover up a certain amount of sins, but in a dead space that's just not the case.
  — Eric E. Harrison, Arkansas Online, 9 Apr. 2023
• The new track is an adrenaline rush from start to finish, with the 39-year-old rap queen spitting both fast and slow over an eerie, reverberant vocal sample.
  — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 25 Mar. 2022
• For extra credit, belt out a reverberant grito. Aced it?
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2021
• For example, a scene that finds Norman in a shallow pool of water requires an understanding of this reverberant space, with feet splashing through the area.
  — Aaron Neuwirth, Variety, 16 Aug. 2021
• And her spare, reverberant retrospective now at the Whitney Museum of American Art time-traveled me straight back to it.
  — Holland Cotter, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2018
• In a matter of days, the world of contemporary art went from a reverberant global network to a ghost town, sheltering in place as the coronavirus endangers our cities and our livelihoods.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2020
• As with Brown’s other albums, the rapper opts for non-standard rhythmic backing tracks, with hints of free jazz, sparkling atmospherics, weeping strings, reverberant shouts and squishy retro video-game bleeps and blorps.
  — John Adamian, courant.com, 8 Nov. 2019
• In this reverberant space, though, consonants could have used more projection.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 6 Aug. 2019
• The low, reverberant sound produced by Martin’s bass was reminiscent of a rumbling car muffler.
  — Bill Friskics-Warren, BostonGlobe.com, 26 May 2018
• Everything coexists in what feels like a physical acoustic space — rich and reverberant, but also distant, held at a remove, seen through a dense fog.
  — New York Times, 9 June 2022
• All benefit from a crisply reverberant acoustic in which an instrument’s timbre is nearly as important as the music played on it.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2019
• Their contribution to the pulse of this reverberant tale cannot be overestimated.
  — David L. Coddoncontributor, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Feb. 2023
• Meaning coalesces not only through reams of dialogue but also through expressive glances, reverberant silences and many atmospheric shots of Kafuku’s car rolling down roads and highways.
  — Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2021
• This makes the case material important: with higher material density, gold (in particular rose gold) and even titanium are more reverberant than platinum, which gives a softer and more muffled chime.
  — Tim Barber, Wired, 18 Dec. 2021
• Words barely comprehended, a panoply of percussive sounds and the reverberant electronic ambience all contributed to producing an uncanny sensation of being in the remove of nature.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2022
• While breathtakingly sophisticated in their content, their tone recalls the best and most beloved children's books: playful but gentle, earnest without being naive, reverberant with ontological wonder.
  — Amy Brady, Scientific American, 9 Sep. 2021
• Hushed melodies and cooing vocals cascade over clean, arpeggiated acoustic guitar, and Risker's longtime collaborator Joshua Wentz adds keyboards and electronic enhancements that help push the material into a spacey, reverberant psychedelic zone.
  — Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader, 18 Apr. 2018

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