Sentence examples for echoic from inspiring English sources
"echoic" is a correct and usable word in written English
It is an adjective that means to repeat or reflect sound, or to suggest a sound. For example, "The echoic sounds of the canyon were eerie."
adjective
Of or pertaining to an echo
Compositionally, it is quietly, subtly echoic: the trumpeter's nostrils, immediately above the mouthpiece, replicate the mouthpiece almost exactly.
It is an echoic city, filled with shadows".
And the whole object designed and illustrated by Stanley, with patterns of reprise existing between the two halves, emulating the echoic nature of the holloway itself.
The lyrics are an echoic tangle of taut pun and babytalk, hiding pain behind joyously silly misdirection.
❦ At Argenteuil centre-ville, I found echoic pedestrian underpasses, faux-19th century streetlamps of twirled iron and postmodern apartment blocks built of scaled-up children's construction toys.
All around me extended the echoic emptiness not only of the block – that by then had fewer than 100 residents – but also the city, which had lost more than half its population since 1945.
A trill, for example, would continue into an echoic haze, augmented by vocalizations (fragments from Gaugin's Tahitian travel diary) as the live flute line worked its way into an expansive, haunting melody.
Webster's New World ducks any etymology and dismisses the second-order reduplication (changing the second letter to produce a rhyme) as an echoic colloquialism based in "baby talk".
This echoic slang derogation of a dilapidated, bucket-of-bolts rattletrap has now achieved at least informal status as an American English word.
