What is "echoing"

Usage examples of "echoing".

Up its three steps, the bridge plunged away into an echoing, aphotic pit.

It came shooting through the foam just like a beaching canoe and as it dragged itself up the sand a sound like the far off roar of a lion came echoing along the cliffs.

The drawling voice which answered filled the lobby, ascended to the green skylight far above, moved inexorably outward from the place of utterance to the balcony edges, thrust through the banisters to flow into the aisles of books, soaking each volume in turn so that the very bindings became redolent with that sound, not echoing but vibrating nonetheless in a reverberating hum larger than the building itself, a seeking pressure which left no corner unexplored.

In the starpatterns he saw the origin: light, the ardor and selflessness of It, the chthonic journey, descanting into geometry, echoing across the shell of time as language: mesons talking atoms into being, molecular communities communicating, no end to It, only addition, time, the futureless deception, until the final addition, the mindfire of consciousness that burns through the drug of dreams and anneals the pain of living with the living pain.

Most of Cimarron had settled down for the night, except for the bang of the piano echoing from the saloon.

The cloth had dried to the shape of his body, square-rumped and solid, the breadth of his small, tender shoulders echoing the wide set of the older, firmer ones he clung to.

Beltar swept into the lower room of the White tower, even before the clunk of the door against the chaos-whitened stone had finished echoing down the corridor.

Moody quietly, limping forward a few steps, the dull clunk of his wooden leg echoing around the hall.

The monk, who helped me as well as he could with the punch I had taken from the desk, trembled at the echoing clamour of my pike which must have been audible at some distance.

Settle, echoing the prophecy of Anchises, celebrate the achievement of the empire of Dulness through her subversion of all forms of culture.

Rose and of Cincinnati and of Abe Durancy himself, echoing within her, pulling her.

While the houses of parliament in England were yet echoing with the oratory of its empassioned members, the hillsides of America were reverberating with peals of musketry.

I bellowed into the echoing space while accompanying myself molto espressivo on the piano.

Starkey pushed away from him, shoving hard against a floor that tried to anchor her, trapped in a nightmare moment with legs that refused to move, her heart echoing thunder in her ears as she rushed in a painful, panicked, horrible lunge for Pell and the door as -- John Michael Fowles gazed up through the red lens of his own blood at a crimson world, then pressed the silver button that set him free.

Lenardo could hear their voices echoing down the hall and the shouts and splashes as they jumped into the frigidarium pool.