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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

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 Sienkiewicz, Henryk

One voice called, the other answered; there were echo-like refrains; and as they sang Nick's heart grew full.

From Master Skylark by Bennett, John

They had an unbearably stuffy night in the breathless railway carriage; once Marcella went out on the platform and sat down for awhile listening to the echo-like barking of dingoes out on the ranges.

From Captivity by Eyles, M. Leonora