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
Dickenson seemed to cease thinking for a few moments, and lay listening to the rattle of the Boers’ guns across the river and the spattering echo-like sounds of the bullets striking around.
From The Kopje Garrison A Story of the Boer War by W. Boucher
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
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 Henryk Sienkiewicz
