Resounding
[rɪ'zaʊndɪŋ] or [rɪ'saʊndɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Resound
Edited by Gertrude
Examples
- Mr. Tulkinghorn, in repairing to his cellar and in opening and shutting those resounding doors, has to cross a little prison-like yard. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The very size of the great manufactory is impressive--sixteen acres of floor space, crowded with machinery and resounding with activity. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Such were the kind of lamentations resounding perpetually through Longbourn House. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- What could be happening, what was it, the great hammer-stroke resounding through the house? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But just at that moment a heavy object smote me a resounding whack between my shoulders that nearly felled me to the ground. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- He had hardly finished one long resounding knock, when he turned to the knocker again and began another. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
Edited by Gertrude