A reverberant room. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : the reverberant booms of cannon. From Dictionary.com.
He punctuated the comment with a reverberant grunt. From Wordnik.com. [Mission to Moulokin]
It was peculiar thunder, deeper yet not as reverberant. From Wordnik.com. [Mission to Moulokin]
Their whispers carried clearly in the reverberant space. From Wordnik.com. [Deception Point]
The heavy steel made a hollow reverberant sound on the oak. From Wordnik.com. [Persuader]
The sound it made was a deep, reverberant ping, ping, ping. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-03-01] Reference
And if the crutches echo, we know the space is reverberant. From Wordnik.com. [2009 September « paper fruit] Reference
Over the watery floor, and beneath the reverberant branches. From Wordnik.com. [Elson Grammar School Literature v4] Reference
Low, reverberant grunts and growls began to issue from within. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of Felix Gunderson] Reference
Emphasis is on dub, the highly reverberant offshoot of reggae. From Wordnik.com. [Disquiet » Ambient: A Starter Kit] Reference
And the hills of the river were filled with reverberant echoes. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862] Reference
Jon-Tom frowned; someone had spoken above the reverberant bellowing. From Wordnik.com. [The Hour of the Gate]
The American's voice rose and filled the room, reverberant as thunder. From Wordnik.com. [Men of Affairs] Reference
A loud, reverberant scraping sound from overhead killed further conversation. From Wordnik.com. [Splinter Of The Mind's Eye]
There was a muted yowl, far too deep and reverberant to have proceeded from Tick. From Wordnik.com. [Exodus From The Long Sun]
The air was reverberant, gray from the light that seeped from the faraway platform. From Wordnik.com. [Gorky Park]
You get a hum, a reverberant hum of the possibility of your own consequential voice. From Wordnik.com. [City of God: A Novel - a review] Reference
Berhalten, having completed his preparations, struck a rod with his knee, to sound a reverberant gong. From Wordnik.com. [Marune: Alastor 933]
From the swelling throat pouch of the monster behind her came a succession of the reverberant boomings. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon Pool] Reference
Sparks flew as metal struck metal with a reverberant ring that echoed back and forth across the street. From Wordnik.com. [A Triumph of Souls]
Golden Girl in a swift stream of the sonorous, reverberant monosyllables; and Lakla answered her in kind. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon Pool] Reference
The air was a vibration of luminance, and the wavering static of the TV seemed louder and more reverberant. From Wordnik.com. [In Other Worlds]
Steven Sebring's Patti Smith: Dream of Life is a dream of a movie; gauzy, free-associative, and reverberant. From Wordnik.com. [Patti Smith Film's Abso-Deffo Reverberant] Reference
I could hear no calls or cries — only the sound of the waves, made weirdly hollow and reverberant by the fog. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 1] Reference
The reverberant, commanding voice was tinged with indifference: a good sign, as far as the general was concerned. From Wordnik.com. [A Triumph of Souls]
There's a Beethoven 9th and a Haydn Schöpfung pretty well rendered second-rate by the boomy, over-reverberant acoustics. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-07-01] Reference
He called again into the reverberant silence, and again there was no direct reply -- only that sense of watchful companionship. From Wordnik.com. [2010 Odyssey Two]
It is unwise to destroy the proper reverberant acoustical setting for worship in deference to highly infrequent noisy behavior. From Wordnik.com. [Rip up those carpets!] Reference
I went to my bed and lay on my back, listening to the whir of the highway and to the low and reverberant voices in the bathroom. From Wordnik.com. [Whitmore, 1969] Reference
“The Knights Templar were warriors,” Teabing reminded, the sound of his aluminum crutches echoing in this reverberant space. From Wordnik.com. [2009 September « paper fruit] Reference
His signature sound — pungent, almost mournfully low and reverberant — is one of the most readily identifiable in jazz today. From Wordnik.com. [With a Country Twang] Reference
Mr. HORNSBY: This is - Okay, you can just call me the reverberant one right now, because that's where I am in here, and it's okay. From Wordnik.com. [Bruce Hornsby, Mixing Pop and Improvisation] Reference
Gradually the sound of his maul changed, becoming deeper, more reverberant with each blow, and intuition prickled at his whiskers. From Wordnik.com. [The Reign of Istar]
I think Ford's decision, once it finds imitators and takes global hold (as I have no doubt it will), may prove no less reverberant. From Wordnik.com. [Ford Puts a PC in Every Pot-That's More Browsers for Bezos] Reference
From the parquet close to the stage, the acoustics were clear and live, if a bit wet: reverberant enough to blur articulated notes. From Wordnik.com. [New York Philharmonic in Asia: Putting the Egg to the Test - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
Turquoise waves struck the mirrored sand with reverberant whumphs and sent sheets of hissing foam racing toward the feet of sunbathers. From Wordnik.com. [Here Comes Another Lesson] Reference
Letting the dark stream pass; Storm King, and Donderberg, homes of reverberant thunder. From Wordnik.com. [The Treason and Death of Benedict Arnold A Play for a Greek Theatre] Reference
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