The phrase "a terrible echo" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a sound that is unpleasant or harsh, often in a metaphorical sense to indicate a negative response or reflection of something.
Example: "The empty hall was filled with a terrible echo that made every footstep sound ominous."
Alternatives: "a dreadful reverberation" or "an awful resonance."
She agreed that people were hearing a terrible echo of the Second World War and asked what it meant for the richest country in the world to turn its back on the suffering of the weakest.
This is a terrible echo of the surveillance of the Apartheid era, Arthur Goldstuck, MD of researchers World Wide Worx, told me.
This year's rains provide a terrible echo of ten years ago when 10,000 lives were lost to Hurricane Mitch.
TFW YOUR TERRIBLE ECHO CHAMBER GETS EVEN WORSE - Jordan Freiman: "At some point in the last 24 hours, President Trump unfollowed Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski of MSNBC's 'Morning Joe' on Twitter.
When I first started researching Hemp Bound, I visited Eastern Colorado during a long drought that had terrible echoes of the Dust Bowl in the 1930's.
When I first started researching Hemp Bound, I visited Eastern Colorado during a long drought that had terrible echoes of the Dust Bowl in the 1930s.
Old psychotherapy joke: midway through a session, the patient cries out, "I'm feeling terrible!" "You're feeling terrible," echoes the therapist, nodding.
There are terrible echoes in what we have heard in this inquiry with what we know about the death of Mark Duggan – a hard stop in a public place and the claim that the suspect who died was armed.
By the time Hughes left her for Assia Wevill (who, in a terrible act that echoed Plath's suicide, later killed herself and her daughter), she had begun to throw off his influence and crystallize the ferocious, highly compressed style of her late and most celebrated poems.
Named as bandit country at the height of the Troubles, the mountains and fields of south Armagh, marking the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic, echo Yeats: "a terrible beauty".
