resound
verb (used without object)
to echo or ring with sound, as a place.
had resounded
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past perfectof resound.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Two days earlier, the capital had resounded with the largest and most vocal antigovernment demonstrations since Nimeiri came to power in his own military coup almost 16 years ago.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was a cry that had resounded constantly through the final week of the campaign, foreshadowing the sweep to come.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Mount, which formerly had resounded to the life and merriment of the people from the court, on a sudden to her looked cold, barren, empty.
From The Lady of the Mount by Frederic Stewart Isham
Where the thunder of Homer's lyre or the sweet notes of Virgil's muse had resounded, you heard now a dismal croak or a lugubrious chant.
From Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge by James Aitken Wylie
The fame of its tattooers, carvers in wood and stone, makers of canoes, paddles, and war-clubs, had resounded through the archipelago for centuries.
From White Shadows in the South Seas by Frederick O'Brien
