echo
noun
a repetition of sound produced by the reflection of sound waves from a wall, mountain, or other obstructing surface.
echo-like
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a word derived from
echo.
Example Sentences
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This can create echo-like effects and make it hard to locate the source of a particular sound.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 21, 2023
It is in this spirit that Lord Byron has questioned Life: "Oh! where can pleasure be found?" and Life, echo-like, would only answer, "Where!"
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. by Various
The mother's soul was struck with grief, and yet, Repeated in her child, 'twas not unmeet That echo-like the grief a tone should take Painless, but ever pensive for her sake.
From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. by Jean Ingelow
On, on they press; and now they pause at a sign from Maud, and listen to the sound of voices, which have a strange and echo-like sound in that wild and tangled spot.
From The Sea-Witch Or, the African Quadroon : a Story of the Slave Coast by Maturin Murray Ballou
No one thanked her; no one uttered a word, for the strains of that music lingered with all and, echo-like, it was yet playing within them.
From Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland by Henryk Sienkiewicz
