Vocabulary Word
Word: resound
Definition: (of a place) be filled with sound; (of a sound) sound loudly; sound back; echo; Ex. hall resounded with laughter
Definition: (of a place) be filled with sound; (of a sound) sound loudly; sound back; echo; Ex. hall resounded with laughter
Sentences Containing 'resound'
Let greater echoes resound as they would, the young mother at the cradle side could always hear those coming.
Our hymn books resound with a melodious cursing of God and enduring Him forever.
If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets.
But now the kind October wind rises, rustling the leaves and rippling the surface of the water, so that no loon can be heard or seen, though his foes sweep the pond with spy glasses, and make the woods resound with their discharges.
We made that small house ring with boisterous mirth and resound with the murmur of much sober talk, making amends then to Walden vale for the long silences.
At the same time Monte Cristo's voice seemed to resound in his ear with the words he had heard only two hours before,``Whatever you want, Morrel, come to me; I have great power.''
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