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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The second notable feature involved an echo.
—Ron Cowen, Scientific American, 3 June 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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Markowitz said the finding evoked an uncomfortable historical echo.
—Abe Streep, ProPublica, 9 June 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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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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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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The vintage tents, antique furniture and echoes of early exploration certainly encourage nostalgia.
—Sarah Kingdom, Forbes.com, 12 June 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
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Labour’s popularity has fallen accordingly, in echoes of the fate suffered by the center-right Conservative Party.
—Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 17 June 2026
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The courses can be tiny, from a teeny teacup of hot chicken broth infused with the aged Alpine echo of Pleasant Ridge Reserve cheese or a squiggly sweet funnel cake dusted with spicebush berry sugar.
—Zareen Syed, Chicago Tribune, 16 June 2026
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There are echoes of last summer, when Newcastle saw their hopes of signing Ekitike from Eintracht Frankfurt dashed by Liverpool.
—James Pearce, New York Times, 19 June 2026
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From shabby apartments to art experiments to filthy needles—with echoes of Patti Smith and Rebecca Makkai—Adler conjures an era of sorrow borne by too many, too young.
—Hamilton Cain, Time, 7 July 2026
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The rural storytelling and fiddle music on the frontier inspired the emergence and growth of commercial country music and bluegrass music, while echoes of acoustic blues and protest songs can be heard in modern R&B and hip-hop.
—Ted Olson, The Conversation, 2 July 2026
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As did his post-match tribute, holding up six fingers to Canada fans (one of each of the team’s goals) in a direct echo of Michael Jordan’s pose after winning his sixth NBA championship.
—Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 29 June 2026
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Everything evoked in this universe—the height and history of the pyramids, the seasonally and topographically constrained activity of skiing, the physics of the ocean, the feeling of wind, even the very idea of distance—is an echo of an echo of the earthly.
—Jenny Odell, Longreads, 2 June 2026
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Whatever its international echoes, the exhibition incited local responses by far-right entities.
—Ara H. Merjian, ARTnews.com, 10 July 2026
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And yet there is something about it, an echo of the original barcode top which Newcastle wore in the early 1990s, when Keegan rescued the team from oblivion and then led them into the Premier League.
—George Caulkin, New York Times, 11 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.
—Rachel Treisman, NPR, 19 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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