How to Use echo in a Sentence
- The crime is a chilling echo of the murders that shocked the city two years ago.
- The book's title is an echo of a line from an old folk song.
- We shouted into the canyon and listened to the echo of our voices.
- His work contains echoes of older and greater poets.
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Not even its echo speaks to us.
—Jenny Odell, Longreads, 2 June 2026
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The echoes of crashing ocean waves have the same effect.
—Judith Garrison, AJC.com, 9 June 2026
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There may be echoes of history on George’s first day.
—Erin Hill, PEOPLE, 25 June 2026
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This gas absorbs that light and also pulses, with this secondary pulse serving as an echo of the first.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 20 June 2026
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There, the alt-jazz group and the singer painted on a wide canvas, letting open space and echo color the music.
—Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Pitchfork, 14 July 2026
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The second notable feature involved an echo.
—Ron Cowen, Scientific American, 3 June 2026
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To the right is the pool, a steamy echo resonating each time its door opens, and to the left, a staircase leading up to the first floor.
—Annalisa Merelli, STAT, 10 July 2026
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The moment carries echoes of that famous photograph from a half-century ago.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 13 June 2026
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The echo-chamber said going badgeless was very European.
—Byron Hurd, The Drive, 3 June 2026
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But isn't the Vice President, JD Vance, an echo of all of those things?
—CBS News, 31 May 2026
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The echoes of 1997 are unmistakable.
—William Pesek, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
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These trades also feel like a bizarro echo of a deal by previous Canucks management almost exactly one year ago.
—Thomas Drance, New York Times, 30 June 2026
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The pacing and nuanced editing echo and mirror the intense psychology of his paintings.
—Hilary Lewis, HollywoodReporter, 11 June 2026
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Indeed, the social traumas of They Marched Under the Sun are not only echoes of a past regime.
—Literary Hub, 24 July 2026
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Markowitz said the finding evoked an uncomfortable historical echo.
—Abe Streep, ProPublica, 9 June 2026
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But Thomas Tuchel took those echoes and put a colossal microphone in front of them, cranking up the decibels to make this failure worse than the others.
—Tim Spiers, New York Times, 16 July 2026
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Many of the supporters’ banners carry echoes of religious iconography.
—Oliver Kay, New York Times, 17 June 2026
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While many species navigate by emitting high-frequency sounds and listening for the echoes, some fruit bats rely primarily on their eyesight and sense of smell to find food.
—Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 24 July 2026
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Here, too, there were echoes of Keegan’s blissful early days, when queues snaked outside the stadium hours before kick-off and every victory felt like alchemy.
—George Caulkin, New York Times, 30 July 2026
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Loud crowds, bad lighting, wind noise, echo-heavy rooms or chaotic backstage areas can make content feel unprofessional no matter how good the conversation itself is.
—King Holder, Rolling Stone, 4 June 2026
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Pro wrestling is often viewed as a fake form of fighting, but the flips, jumps and landings are very real — slaps and kicks landed on reddening skin echo throughout SPW’s venues.
—Sacbee.com, 24 July 2026
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The anecdote reflects the nature of royal properties at large, which are altered but rarely bulldozed and rebuilt, causing their rooms to battle the needs of current residents and the echoes of past tenants.
—Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 11 June 2026
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These reflect their echolocation calls away at an angle, rather than returning them, which can then cause bats to mistake this perpendicular echo pattern for open water or completely empty space.
—Indrabati Lahiri, Forbes.com, 26 July 2026
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The vintage tents, antique furniture and echoes of early exploration certainly encourage nostalgia.
—Sarah Kingdom, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
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Diametrically across her on the opposite wall and in a disorienting symbiotic echo is a drawing of legendary football player Pelé.
—Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 24 July 2026
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Instead of a handheld probe sweeping across your skin, a ring of transducers surrounds the body underwater and fires sound waves from every angle at once, reconstructing a full 3D volume from the echoes.
—Gabriel Alin Zainescu, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
- The music echoed through the church.
- Their voices echoed in the hall.
- Laughter echoed across the lake.
- The book's title echoes a line from an old folk song.
- The crime echoes last year's shocking murders.
- His warnings are echoed by many other experts in the field.
- Others have echoed her criticisms.
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This week could echo that time.
—Kyle Thomas, PEOPLE, 21 Sep. 2025
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Yet those were not the words that echoed.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
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The shape of the skirts echoed the shape of the word.
—Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025
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At that same event, Smart echoed her co-star.
—Michael Schneider, Variety, 29 May 2026
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Let peace echo, not gunfire, one read.
—Christopher Spata, The Orlando Sentinel, 21 Mar. 2026
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The chants and drumbeats echoed through the walls.
—Arielle Kaden, New York Daily News, 29 Mar. 2026
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Each blow echoed against her chest, her stomach.
—Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
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Wolff’s words echo those of her boss in 2025.
—Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 13 Feb. 2026
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Wilmers and Massenkoff's findings echo these trends.
—Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025
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The cries of this widow will echo around the world like a battle cry.
—NBC news, 14 Sep. 2025
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Other creators have echoed the same shift.
—Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
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Tune out the echoing complaints about high prices.
—Connie Ogle, Miami Herald, 3 Oct. 2025
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The nation's top doctor echoed the alarm.
—Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025
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The sound echoed off the walls of graves as families danced and drank beer.
—NPR, 10 Oct. 2025
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That message soon echoed across the country.
—Grace Sandman, ABC News, 14 Sep. 2025
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Out of My House, echoed his statement.
—Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 6 June 2026
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Charlotte Elich echoed the same, but said things are still up in the air.
—Max Scheinblum, Denver Post, 28 Feb. 2026
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The sentiment is echoed by many of the other dancers in the troupe.
—Amy Woodyatt, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2025
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The loud hum of his oxygen machine echoed through the courtroom.
—Steve Karnowski, Fortune, 29 Jan. 2024
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King shouted, his voice echoing.
—Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
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That sentiment was echoed by al Kurd.
—Dragana Jovanovic, ABC News, 4 Apr. 2026
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The caramel notes of the crisped chicken skin echo that of the roasting apples.
—Tribune News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Oct. 2025
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For nearly a decade, the Ryman has echoed with the pulse of hip-hop.
—Marcus K. Dowling, Nashville Tennessean, 2 Oct. 2025
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