reverberant
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of reverberant
1565–75; < Latin reverberant- (stem of reverberāns ), present participle of reverberāre, equivalent to re- re- + verber ( āre ) to beat, lash (derivative of verber whip) + -ant- -ant
Example Sentences
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Vengeful across the cold November moors, Loud with ancestral shame there came the bleak Sad wind that shrieked, and answered with a shriek, Reverberant through lonely corridors.
From Children of the Night by Robinson, Edwin Arlington
Reverberant, through all the caverns round, The uproar swells, and fills the world with sound.
From Lilith The Legend of the First Woman by Collier, Ada Langworthy
Over the city, in each gasping street, Shudders a haze of heat, Reverberant from pillar, span and plinth.
From The Air Trust by England, George Allan
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