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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of echo.

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Examples

  • My name echoed between us like a prayer, and I answered with a mewling cry, tumbling over the precipice again.

    Brush of Darkness Allison Pang 2011

  • The phrase echoed in my head; I thought of Beckett's Waiting For Godot.

    Ming Holden: Kenya Dispatch: The End of Structure Ming Holden 2011

  • The phrase echoed in my head; I thought of Beckett's Waiting For Godot.

    Ming Holden: Kenya Dispatch: The End of Structure Ming Holden 2011

  • My name echoed from his lips like a prayer, murmured in gentle refrain.

    Brush of Darkness Allison Pang 2011

  • My name echoed from his lips like a prayer, murmured in gentle refrain.

    Brush of Darkness Allison Pang 2011

  • The phrase echoed in my head; I thought of Beckett's Waiting For Godot.

    Ming Holden: Kenya Dispatch: The End of Structure Ming Holden 2011

  • It is no quirk that the avid reader of James Joyce and a qualified linguist, atomic physicist Murray Gell-Mann, chose quark over quork, based on the phrase "Three quarks for Muster Mark" in "Finnegan's Wake," because he had found there were three kinds of quarks in a proton and the word echoed the phrase "three quarts for Mister" elsewhere in the novel "Dairy Daring: Quark," Week in Words, Jan. 21.

    Quarks, Quorks, Joyce and a Wake 2012

  • The phrase echoed in my head; I thought of Beckett's Waiting For Godot.

    Ming Holden: Kenya Dispatch: The End of Structure Ming Holden 2011

  • My name echoed between us like a prayer, and I answered with a mewling cry, tumbling over the precipice again.

    Brush of Darkness Allison Pang 2011

  • The name echoed through her mind, and then she remembered.

    Ecstasy in Darkness Gena Showalter 2010

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