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• The flag was hanging limp all day, until a flutter made it stand up and ripple for a few seconds.From the entry flutter
• Defaults in America's mortgage lending businesses are causing a ripple effect through the major banks in other continents.From the entry ripple effect
• An act of kindness is more like dropping a stone that creates expanding ripples, he says.2025 November 13, Kamala Thiagarajan, “If you're going to be kind to another human, today is the day to do it!”, in NPR. From the entry come to
• The changing of the guard is set to ripple out beyond Amazon, which Mr.2021 February 2, Karen Weise, “Jeff Bezos to Step Down as Amazon C.E.O.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry changing of the guard
• Another blast rippled the air, and an elephantish man by the doors collapsed.2020, Matt Ward, Wolfish: A YA Dystopian Sci-Fi Techno Thriller, Myrmani LLC, unnumbered page. From the entry elephantish
• He didn't relent until the last shudder rippled through her beautiful body.2015, Melissa Foster, Healed by Love (Love in Bloom; The Bradens at Peaceful Harbor; 1), Los Gatos, Calif.: Smashwords, →ISBN. From the entry lave
• The gleam of his silver mail was as brilliant as the scarlet cloak rippling from his shoulders.2013, John R. Fultz, “A Council of Kings”, in Seven Kings (Books of the Shaper; II), London: Orbit, →ISBN, page 395. From the entry silver mail
• I don’t believe Lindsay senses the satiric undercurrents beneath the machined ripples of Ballard’s prose.2011, Will Self, “The frowniest spot on Earth”, in London Review of Books, XXXIII.9. From the entry machined
• “A stretcher case, surely,” he added, and an underlaugh rippled through the ranks and files.2011, Ward McBurney, Sap's War. From the entry underlaugh
• All of her attention is focused on surveying the rippled surface of my sturdy, pileous torso.2010, Muriel Lede, The Sacrament of Conception, page 264. From the entry pileous
• You have to let the calentura run through you, ripple your rippled waters still.2008 March 30, Nellie, “You've got to take your mind off him”, in Let Loose Nellie, retrieved 27 Aug 2012. From the entry inwomb
• A low fog rolled across the frozen water, faint ripples thickening into groundmist at the tree line.2006, Craig Davidson, Rust and Bone. From the entry groundmist
• A simpler scheme is to connect the carry-ins and carry-outs of the units in a ripple chain.2004, Wayne Wolf, FPGA-Based System Design. From the entry carry-out
• It’s a crisp fall day, but my mother is sweating, poison rippling through her system.1996 September 8, David L. Ulin, “Cancer’s Lessons”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN…. From the entry how're you doing
• The vast rippling fields of maize and tobacco between Rusapi and Marandellas no longer impressed me.1988, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), page 296. From the entry Marandellas
• I shall have tons of cream in silver buckets and raspberry ripples.1981, Barry Maybury, Creative writing for juniors. From the entry raspberry ripple
• For entrophy is the real cosmic wave, and evolution only a momentary tellurian ripple within it.1970, C[live] S[taples] Lewis, edited by Walter Hooper, God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics, Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B.…. From the entry tellurian
• Fine the horses, with flying manes and tight lithe bodies, shoulders sweating, muscles rippling, mouths afroth.1969, Robert Coover, Pricksongs & descants: fictions, page 170. From the entry afroth
• Prestopnick's hat ascended on a rippled brow as he uttered, “Fergawdsakes, reggie ain't my name.1952, The Square Peg, page 38. From the entry fergawdsakes
• I liked the pale milk-chocolaty ones with the dark iridescent rippling ruffs.1943, Vincent McHugh, “Wednesday: 18th February”, in I Am Thinking of My Darling: An Adventure Story, 3rd printing, New York, N.Y.: Simon…. From the entry milk-chocolaty
• The rippling running yellow flame made them both happy, warmed their faces and their souls.1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter XIV, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC. From the entry chimneyful
• What one part of the polycule says about another could have huge, messy ripple effects throughout the whole group.2024 January 16, Allison P. Davis, “What Does a Polycule Actually Look Like?”, in New York Magazine. From the entry polycule
• Meanwhile, during all this puzzlement, those unpleasant waves, biological ripple upon nasty ripple, kept up assailment on my legs and backbone.2018, Anna Burns, Milkman, London: Faber & Faber, Part 3. From the entry assailment
• Emboldened by the women, and men, who have spoken up, the “Weinstein Effect” is rippling across the globe.2017 November 14, Aron Heller, “‘Weinstein Effect’ goes global as powerful men confronted”, in AP News. From the entry Weinstein effect
• Physicists have announced the discovery of gravitational waves, ripples in spacetime first anticipated by Albert Einstein a century ago.2016 February 11, Tim Radford, “Gravitational waves: discovery hailed as breakthrough of the century: Scientists announce discovery of…. From the entry gravitational wave
• Whatever had happened to her, her behaviour had ripple effects that were still causing upset and grief nearly five years later.2016, Liz Nugent, Lying In Wait, →ISBN, page 115. From the entry ripple effect
• I managed to catch it before it landed and the icing rippled in the middle as the cake concertinaed.2016 October 20, G.E.Larrisey, From Care to Somewhere, page 131. From the entry one over the eight
• The ripple marks are symmetrical with mostly rounded crests, which are parallel, partly bifurcated and mostly oriented in a northsouth direction.2016, Oliver Wings, Jens N. Lallensack, Heinrich Mallison, “The Early Cretaceous Dinosaur Trackways in Münchehagen (Lower Saxony…. From the entry northsouth
• But something new was rippling through a million MySpace profiles.2015, Rose Bretécher, Pure, →ISBN. From the entry accessible
• With the off-time constant, the on-time is increased to maintain the same peak-to-peak ripple current in the inductor.2014, Bob Dobkin, John Hamburger, Analog Circuit Design Volume Three: Design Note Collection, →ISBN. From the entry off-time
• The river leapt and rippled like a lizard.2013, Nancy Springer, We Don't Know Why. From the entry vee
• She was bigged up—had a weight-lifter's rippling arms.2007, David Handler, The Bright Silver Star: A Berger and Mitry Mystery. From the entry big up
• All I could see was a three-ringed ripple, and beyond that, the semisubmerged silhouette of a fellow student.2007 July 14, Harry Hurt Iii, “The Incomplete Angler”, in New York Times. From the entry semisubmerged
• She platted her hair in segments the night before, so that today she’d have a rippling effect through her hair.2006, Elka Paquette, Taboo, →ISBN, page 100. From the entry plat

Meaning of ripple

1. noun A moving disturbance, or undulation, in the surface of a fluid.
2. noun One of a series of corrugations in flat surface.
3. noun A sound similar to that of undulating water.

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Questions about ripple in a sentence

How do you use ripple in a sentence?

Ripple is used as a noun and verb. For example: “I dropped a small stone into the pond and watched the ripples spread.”

What is a short sentence with ripple?

“Hearns' 'Mech rippled fifteen missiles.”

What does ripple mean?

Ripple means a moving disturbance, or undulation, in the surface of a fluid.