What's the difference between celebrated and resounding?

Celebrated


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Celebrate
  • (a.) Having celebrity; distinguished; renowned.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) says Gregg Wallace opening the new series of Celebrity MasterChef (Mon-Fri, 2.15pm, BBC1).
  • (2) Fatah leader Yahya Rabah said the organisation would celebrate "with our brothers in Hamas", the Ma'an news agency reported.
  • (3) If you want to become a summit celebrity be sure to strike a pose whenever you see the ENB photographer approaching.
  • (4) There are many examples to support his assertion, yet for the most part, it is celebrities who dictate what images can be published and what stories should be told.
  • (5) On a weekend that sees the country celebrate 50 years of independence it is certain that despite all things – good and bad – that have taken place in 2013, the next 50 years will be transformed by personal technology, concerned citizens and the media.
  • (6) The supporters – many of them wearing Hamas green headbands and carrying Hamas flags – packed the open-air venue in rain and strong winds to celebrate the Islamist organisation's 25th anniversary and what it regards as a victory in last month's eight-day war with Israel.
  • (7) They had watched him celebrate mass with three million pilgrims on the packed-out shores of Copacabana beach .
  • (8) July 7, 2016 Verified account A blue tick that tells you the user is either an A-list celebrity, a respected authority on an important subject or a BuzzFeed employee.
  • (9) Celebrity woodlanders Tax breaks and tree-hugging already draw the wealthy and well-known to buy British forests.
  • (10) Arsenal’s 10 men fall at the first hurdle against Dinamo Zagreb Read more This win, even against such feeble opponents, was celebrated, with the locals chorusing their manager’s name amid a wave of relief given so much of the team’s domestic campaign to date has been dismal.
  • (11) The writer Palesa Morudu told me that she sees, in the South African pride that "we did it", a troubling anxiety that we can't: "Why are we celebrating that we built stadiums on time?
  • (12) My boyfriend and I headed to a sushi bar to celebrate.
  • (13) In early 2009, he took part in Celebrity Big Brother for a rumoured fee of £100,000.
  • (14) Lion cubs fathered by Cecil, the celebrated lion shot dead in Zimbabwe , may already have been killed by a rival male lion and even if they were still alive there was nothing conservationists could do to protect them, a conservation charity has warned.
  • (15) We used to have a really good night in here on Bonfire night.” Communities across the UK are facing the same unwillingness by civic bodies to stage Bonfire night celebrations.
  • (16) Perhaps it’s the lot of people like my colleagues here in the centre and me to wrestle with our consciences, shed tears, lose sleep and try to make the best of a very bad, heart-breaking job and leave the rest of the world to party, get pissed and celebrate Christmas.
  • (17) Two days after Michael Morpurgo, author of War Horse , published a beautiful essay calling for this year's First World War commemorations to " honour those who died " and "celebrate the peace we now share", Michael Gove has delivered the government's response.
  • (18) Roche, 30, was born in High Wycombe, but moved with her British parents to Germany as a young child, and has been a national celebrity there since her teens, presenting music and culture shows.
  • (19) Trawling through the private telephone conversations of royals, politicians and celebrities in the hope of picking up scandalous gossip is not seen as legitimate news gathering and the techniques of entrapment which led to the recent Pakistani match-fixing scandal , although grudgingly admired in this particular case, are derided as manufacturing the news.
  • (20) The 2014 MTV Video Music Awards didn’t achieve the same degree of controversy as last year’s celebration of tongues, twerking and teddy bears , but between a speech by a homeless teen, an ill-timed wardrobe malfunction, and Beyoncé’s spectacular, epic, show-stopping finale, there were nevertheless a few moments worth watching.

Resounding


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Resound

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In Paris, Chancellor Angela Merkel and President François Hollande tried to plot a common strategy after Greeks returned a resounding no to five years of eurozone-scripted austerity.
  • (2) Nor – despite today's declaration that the three-day meeting had been a resounding success – was there more than patchy progress.
  • (3) Promising to tear up bailout agreements that had created a “humanitarian crisis”, Syriza surged to a resounding victory .
  • (4) 10.03am: This from Hiraldo_TIFC, one of the Guardian Fans' Network members: Jürgen Klinsmann speaking about the process of Germany's revival in the last 6 years , worthwhile read #worldcup #GER 10.13am: Below the line, ChuckSchick asks: "Would a resounding German World Cup win, coupled with an impressive CL run by Bayern lead to greater Bundesliga coverage on UK television?
  • (5) This case resoundingly illustrates that the strength of our Program is not limited only to testing.
  • (6) He used a set of figures purporting to show high weekend death-rates that have since been resoundingly rubbished by health statisticians.
  • (7) A Guardian poll in August 2013 produced a resounding no vote on quotas for UK parliamentarians .
  • (8) That is a resounding rebuke for Berlusconi -- whose efforts to unseat Letta appear to have turned sour.
  • (9) At the end of the night guests voted a resounding 'yes' to supporting the campaign.
  • (10) Feed-in tariffs for solar panels – where the government pays people for creating their own renewable energy – have been a resounding success, but the government now intends to cut them back, a decision that has led to legal action from solar companies.
  • (11) The almost certain resounding no to the alternative vote shows clearly that the voters think otherwise.
  • (12) Frustratingly for Hilton's critics, who like to paint him as a sort of misguided guff engine, the big society has been a resounding, concrete success.
  • (13) Our current answer is not a resounding “No!” It’s a slightly interrogatively inflected “Probably not”, which is hardly a ringing endorsement of the health of American civilisation.
  • (14) But his resounding 4,091 majority delivered David Cameron a key marginal.
  • (15) Otherwise, the narrative will proceed to its inevitable denouement: a resounding Labour defeat in 2010.
  • (16) The astonishing popularity of the “rock-star economist ” is itself a resounding testament to our concern for inequality.
  • (17) Jubilant Republicans declared the US election race back on Thursday, calling Mitt Romney's resounding victory over Barack Obama in the first of the presidential debates a "game changer".
  • (18) Lionel Messi scored within three minutes of returning to action for the first time in more than three weeks to help fire Barcelona to a resounding 4-0 home win over Deportivo La Coruña .
  • (19) There is much evidence to suggest voters will resoundingly reject Corbynism in its current form if he makes it to the next election.
  • (20) As the Tory cheers resounded at the end of the budget speech, standing at the back was the diminished figure of Boris Johnson, wearing the look of a man that knew his future rival had set the bar somewhere he has never been in politics.