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- adjective of a sound That
echoes .
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Examples
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Trevor's voice, kind of echoey and distant, told her that he was on his way toCalifornia, to theNapaValleywhere he was going to finish his article.
Hot And Bothered Leigh, Jo 1999
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A pause came, and I heard clanking in the background, repetitive and echoey, like thepingof a baseball against an aluminum bat.
Duplex Danny Goodman 2011
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The acoustics in here have the nightmarishly echoey quality of some of the Beatles' more conceptual stuff.
Omer Rosen: Footnoting David Foster Wallace: Part 1 Omer Rosen 2011
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Not just nightmarishly echoey, but so as in specific subsection of certain band's music.
Omer Rosen: Footnoting David Foster Wallace: Part 1 Omer Rosen 2011
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The acoustics in here have the nightmarishly echoey quality of some of the Beatles' more conceptual stuff.
Omer Rosen: Footnoting David Foster Wallace: Part 1 Omer Rosen 2011
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I'm more used to buskers in the London underground who get help from enclosed, echoey spaces.
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It was a repeated, echoey sound, like a bell in a school building—a fire alarm!
Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear Elizabeth Chandler 2011
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The lights flickered; way down the hollow hall you could hear the echoey clang of lockers slamming.
Molecules Joe Deir 2011
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The echoey, pinging sound that is both strange and somehow familiar.
Camo Girl Kekla magoon 2011
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I dial a hair to the right and hear a guttural voice—distant and echoey—butchering “I Am the Walrus.”
Soul Trapper F. J. Lennon 2011
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