I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
sentiment
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Forgive me if I share them with you, in the hope that they may echo your own sentiments .
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He was echoing the sentiments of almost every one of his coworkers.
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Furthermore, what the men express echoes the sentiments of soldiers in wars throughout history.
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Ann Lewis, spokesperson for the Clinton reelection campaign echoes that sentiment for the Democratic side.
sound
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The preference was for something resembling either a low-pitched voice or the sound of a voice echoing inside a cavern.
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They hurt, the sound of the blows echoing off my body.
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Sitting there he would often hear strange sounds echoing around him; the shifting of books or the faint creaking of shelves.
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It was quiet, too, every sound echoing around the cavernous dome.
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The truck climbed steeply, the sound of its engine echoing back from thick forest.
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Carrefour started, looking round from the door, the sound echoing in his mind.
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The good doctor threw back his head and laughed merrily, the sound echoing strangely in that dark, forbidding hall.
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The smell of chlorine engulfed her and some one suddenly blew a whistle, the sound echoing in the large enclosed area.
theme
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More primary-care physicians are the remedy, said Mrs Clinton, echoing a popular theme in health-care deliberations.
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Their story echoes the central themes in Part 1 of this book:-Principles.
view
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Fry, perhaps consciously, was echoing the views of the foremost artistic panjandrum of a previous age.
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But McCurry also said the bill is unnecessary, echoing the views of many House Democrats.
voice
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Adam didn't move until he was sure he could no longer hear her penetrating voice echoing on the staircase.
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Her voice echoes off the steel lockers and the painted concrete walls.
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He begins to hear his own voice , echoing the speaker and causing shadowing aloud effects.
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It cast an unflattering light upon the skin, it made voices echo .
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The preference was for something resembling either a low-pitched voice or the sound of a voice echoing inside a cavern.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Her designs were informed by vintage Halston, `Love Story' and the leisure suit, all echoing 1970s' style.
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I heard footsteps echoing down the corridor.
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Results of the study echo the findings of recent newspaper polls.
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The room was vast and empty and every smallest noise we made echoed.
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The thunder of the guns echoed throughout the valley.
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Their voices echoed through the cave.
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This new musical with its expensive costumes and scenery echoes the Hollywood glamour of the 1950s.
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Thunder echoed over the mountains.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But other poems echo earlier attitudes.
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I could hear it echo through the house.
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In some places the reddish undercoat of the frame shows through the gold moulding, echoing the reds in the picture.
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Many of us would echo her amazement from our own recent experience.
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Shells-ells-ells echoes neatly down the steep canyon walls.
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These two seem to echo each other and they certainly go side by side.
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Type: This will echo the file information to screen.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
faint
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Zach's chattering was only a faint rumbling echo in the distance.
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There was the faint echo of voices rolling up to the highest balcony seats.
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The exalted status of peers such as the Duke of Norfolk is a faint echo of this power in the land.
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From somewhere far-off in the building, he could hear a faint echo of the nurses' choir.
strong
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The psychological theories of political leaders and the state reviewed here have strong echoes in New Right thinking.
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What is significant is that the signals had consistent characteristics, and we observed no other kinds of strong echoes in midwater.
■ VERB
find
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Colonial controls find their echo today in certain of the measures adopted by the post-independence governments.
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The puzzle lay in his certainty that his feeling for her found an echo in her own feelings.
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And their shouts find echoes in the industrial towns of the Midlands and the North.
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Chardin's paintings of people also find an echo in some of today's best figurative sculpture.
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Had heard and found the echo in themselves.
hear
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The memory was so vivid that for a second she thought she heard the echo of the slam.
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If they do slow their steps, do they hear the echoes of shouts and songs?
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Any animal that can hear at all may hear echoes .
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On these tours you still can hear the echoes of resentment over items and fortunes lost in the Civil War.
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Any animal that can hear at all may hear echoes .
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Well, I hear a distinct echo here of the old feminist rally cry: The personal is political.
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It is suggested that the bat hears echoes of its own squeaks rebounding from solid objects.
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He could hear the echoes of his footsteps on the pavement.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The echo of the bells rang through the town.
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There was the sound of gunshot and then its echo in the mountains.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Captain Cook's third and last voyage was a dismal echo of the first two.
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Chardin's paintings of people also find an echo in some of today's best figurative sculpture.
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On these tours you still can hear the echoes of resentment over items and fortunes lost in the Civil War.
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The reader's interpretation is complicated by echoes of poetic use, and appreciation of the development of a topos.
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The Samaritans are the last echo that remain in the world of the ancient Israelite tradition.
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What she said in her letters to him is all lost except for echoes and resonances in his replies.