echo
noun
a repetition of sound produced by the reflection of sound waves from a wall, mountain, or other obstructing surface.
unechoed
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a word derived from
echo.
Example Sentences
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But Lily’s joke was left unechoed: everybody talked professional shop, quoted figures; the habit of signing contracts, of avoiding the traps laid by the agents had given them all a keen sense of business.
From The Bill-Toppers by J. André Castaigne
It is human—some mighty drama unseen, unheard, is playing there its tragedies or mocking comedy, and the laugh of endless years is shrieking onward from peak to peak, unheard, unechoed, and unknown.
From Darkwater Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois
It all sounded so like the dreamings of a student and recluse—discussing the problem without much passion—without even malignity—but with that strange frankness of the unheard and unechoed musings of the closet.
From Sketches in the House (1893) by T. P. O'Conner
Not that Max really knew anything; but the name of Whitaker, as identified with Hugh Morten, might better be permitted to pass unechoed into oblivion....
From The Destroying Angel by Louis Joseph Vance
Ah! to be fickle," she said, "is showers after drought, seas after sand; to cry, unechoed; to be thirsty, the pitcher broken.
From Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance by Walter De la Mare
