I can only echo

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

I can only echo the words of Celtics broadcaster Sean Grande: "You just hope that this story has a happy ending".

I can only echo his comments: if you have the opportunity to learn – or, better still, pass on – a language, then grab it with both hands.

I can only echo some of the last words of this song to sum up my feelings for it: "Martha, Martha, I love you can't you see".

As for math, I can only echo Reuben Hersh and Philip Davis's words from The Mathematical Experience:  "I find mathematics an infinitely complex and mysterious world; exploring it is an addiction from which I hope never to be cured".

On behalf of the Editorial Office and the editors of Diabetes Care, I can only echo that the field of diabetes has lost two giants... and mourn that we in the Editorial Office have lost two cherished friends.

I can only echo what my PPE colleagues - especially Mr Radwan - have said: in order for us to really safeguard the respect of the European regulatory framework, we need full information from the Commission and Council on the information that is delivered to the US authorities and how this information is protected by the US authorities.

While he wrestles with notions of a God who cannot redeem man and a man who may not merit redemption, the Philip K. Dick we see here is much less hopeful than the author of "The Man in the High Castle"; whereas one of the main figures in that novel boldly declares, "I must go on," the characters in "Palmer Eldritch" can only echo Barney Mayerson's sigh of resignation, "It is this or the void".

He reports that when Mr. Hanssen was arrested last February in the act of making a document drop, he taunted his former F.B.I. colleagues, saying, "What took you so long?" Readers can only echo that question.

Those of us who live or work near ground zero can only echo a numb nod and shudder at the image of the possible global chaos that could occur if America goes to war against Saddam Hussein.

When one thinks of the indignation and fury that have constantly flashed round Whitman's name one can only echo the wisdom of Dr Johnson and repeat that there are some outrages which seem to be the ebullitions of minds agitated by stronger resentment than bad poetry can excite.

"Can only echo everyone else – nice while it lasted, this decision handled just atrociously.