resound
verb (used without object)
to echo or ring with sound, as a place.
was resounding
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past progressiveof resound.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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The advice from the experts BBC News spoke to was resounding: the best place to swim is somewhere supervised.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026
The meeting itself was unnecessarily complicated, but the result was resounding.
From Salon ● Nov. 27, 2025
When she spoke to a group of Florida State University students recently, she said, “There was resounding applause when I brought up tax reform, which was a surprise.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2017
They did it successfully in the teams’ first meeting in late November and the first-round success was resounding.
From Washington Post ● May 2, 2015
Their English comrades had followed their lead with alacrity, and the Fort was resounding with laughter and song.
From French and English A Story of the Struggle in America by Evelyn Everett-Green
