How to Use consonance in a Sentence

consonance

noun
  • There may be a bit too much consonance between the events past and present that give the novel its structure.
    — Ellen Akins Washington Post, Star Tribune, 22 Feb. 2021
  • Yet that consonance of sound is complicated by the writing.
    — Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 23 Jan. 2026
  • The syllables fall like dominoes, and consonance collapses like a house of cards.
    — Chuck Klosterman, SPIN, 11 Mar. 2023
  • There’s a narrative consonance between the two sides of the record—a hungering for oblivion.
    — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2020
  • This creates an odd consonance between internal and external passage, one that suggests that the mind is also a landscape of sorts and that walking is one way to traverse it.
    — Charlotte Shane, New Republic, 26 May 2017
  • It was proposed as an alternative (even if there were more consonances than were openly discussed at the time), and was bolstered by being the opposition to something too grand.
    — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2018
  • As always, Maxo’s syrup-thick voice and consonance-heavy flow detail the wheeling and dealing of a life on the street, with an introspective approach most save for therapy.
    — Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2022
  • The sounds get along not necessarily through traditional harmonic consonance (although there is plenty of that), but through a kind of rightness of being.
    — Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2021
  • Eilish cautions against reading any song as autobiographical, but this song — about being widely seen yet deeply lost and misunderstood — has consonance.
    — August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Given the conditions, many oil marketing companies in India were not willing to sell fuel products at a loss since retail prices have not risen in the country in consonance with global prices.
    — Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 4 July 2022
  • The consonance between domestic order and foreign affairs proved difficult to sustain, however.
    — Charles King, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2021
  • That has helped create consonance among all the various regulators and policymakers involved in state climate policy.
    — David Roberts, Vox, 23 Aug. 2018
  • But a film also resonates peculiarly with the specific time of its creation, not necessarily through overt connections to current events but in terms of consonance or dissonance with prevailing moods.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2017
  • Minimalism would herald an unexpected inventive return to consonance, traditional harmony and pulse, all of which had little appeal to modern music.
    — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 21 Apr. 2018
  • The orchestras of cicadas in consonance with Odella's hisses and buzzes, then, are infrequent cosmic church bells, entoning the next generational shift in a call to worship while keeping track of nature's rhythm—patient, holy metromes to our lives.
    — Ross Kenneth Urken, Scientific American, 14 June 2021
  • The ending of the first movement makes clear Britten’s awareness of this aesthetic dichotomy, with a cello glissando ascent through the harmonic series, an acoustic phenomenon literally at the core of western ideas of musical consonance and harmony.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Apr. 2022
  • Multitracked saxophones swarm over a pit of molten bass frequencies, slipping between sentimental consonance—you might momentarily be reminded of Vangelis’ Blade Runner score—and eerie discord.
    — Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 25 Mar. 2026

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