Example sentences for: echo

How can you use “echo” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The bloody 1934 riots on the Place de la Concorde in Paris offered a disturbing echo to the street fighting in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany.

  • This culture-nature split corresponds, in Walcott's personal mythology, with a split in himself: his European education and Caribbean childhood; his two homes, in Boston and St. Lucia; the two races, white and black, of his ancestry; and "the two languages I know--one so rich/ in its imperial intimacies, its echo of privilege,/ the other like the orange words of a hillside in drought--/ but my love of both wide as the Atlantic is large."

  • It's particularly strange that the supposedly media-savvy Gabler didn't acknowledge in his piece the popular-kid killing classic Heathers and its less acute echo Jawbreaker . Even the mild snarkiness of MTV's Daria should have put Gabler, for whom mass entertainment is the only important reality, on notice that high schools are communities that are hardly tolerant, accepting, or even rational.

  • Here we make clear that the changes wrought by lean retailing echo the last industrial transformation, which occurred in the late nineteenth century with the advent of the railroad and telegraph.

  • Tiepolo's wit evidently found an echo in the popular commedia dell'arte characters of Venetian street theater, a taste for the topsy-turvy he shared with his son Domenico.


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