How to Use unison in a Sentence

unison

noun
  • With the ball still in the air, the Portland bench rose in unison, arms raised.
    Ivan Carter, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Others joined in unison to call for an end to the war in Ukraine.
    Peter Suciu, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
  • His singular voice led to the voice of many in unison for change.
    Journal Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Then all 40 people, in unison, shouted the same, and that was it.
    Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 18 Sep. 2023
  • That applies to the band’s seamless singing in unison, Rae said.
    Maddie Browning, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Apr. 2023
  • The group puts out their hands and repeats after him in unison.
    TIME.com, 27 June 2017
  • The senators all stand in unison and raise their right hand.
    Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 8 Apr. 2024
  • The three subsets of strings are tuned in unison, great for the primal sound of Hill Country style blues.
    AL.com, 23 June 2017
  • At the close of the piece, the Jews rise up in defiance, singing in unison the Hebrew prayer Shema Yisrael.
    John Adams, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
  • The sweating done, the players dived, in unison, beneath the water.
    Don Norcross, sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 Aug. 2017
  • Ropes stretched in front of the runners fell in unison onto the track, releasing them to begin the race.
    Janelle Peters, The Atlantic, 26 May 2017
  • With bonds and stocks once again falling in unison, cash is the ultimate refuge.
    Farah Elbahrawy, Fortune, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Video shows how sawfly larvae react in unison when faced with a threat.
    National Geographic, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Four teams knelt in unison before the national anthem and stood for the song.
    Mark Inabinett, AL.com, 10 Oct. 2017
  • No rapper on planet earth could have white pre-teen girls and grown Black men singing along in unison.
    Camellia Burris, Miami Herald, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The best time to visit Pando is the fall, when the aspen leaves turn gold, orange, and red in stunning unison.
    Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 3 June 2022
  • Tens of thousands of sequined young people sing and chant in unison.
    USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2023
  • In unison, the two migrate to the couch, plop next to each other, and are still laser-focused on one another.
    Pamela Avila, USA TODAY, 14 Apr. 2023
  • But now, the Arctic and Antarctic are crying out in unison that there is very much something to see here.
    Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Again, eyes gazed upward in unison as the group entered the black box, which rises up three-stories.
    Erika Rose, Post-Tribune, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Then in unison, the women shifted to their left to meet their next date until they‘d met everyone in the room.
    Kailyn Brown, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2023
  • The students shouted along with Ms. Belfiglio, slamming their heels to the ground in unison to crush the insteps of imaginary...
    Thomas MacMillan, WSJ, 9 May 2017
  • The upheaval of protests and the mounting chaos of the women’s stories rise in unison with the typhoon that threatens to engulf the maritime port city.
    Jireh Deng, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Their unison steps caused the bridge deck to resonate, shake violently and break apart.
    William Gurstelle, WSJ, 25 Nov. 2022
  • Like a startled squid in water, the women recoiled in unison expecting the lord to do as he was told.
    Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Performing all in unison as a Who-like choir, the song is an unexpected delight to the ear.
    Vulture, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Nevertheless, the debate will be an event that a large chunk of the country watches in unison.
    Oliver Darcy, CNN, 29 Sep. 2020
  • From rats and giant spiders, to hoards of cult-like clowns moving in unison, AHS: Cult is aiming to shock and repulse.
    Amy MacKelden, Marie Claire, 19 Aug. 2017
  • As the track reached the iconic dance breakdown, the pair performed the steps in unison together, along with the backing dancers who were also dressed as agents and aliens.
    Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 15 Apr. 2024
  • A lot of my own supporters came, but there were some tennis fans that came to the pop up, which is so fun that our careers can cross over and work in unison.
    Michael Stillwell, Town & Country, 30 Aug. 2023

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