How to Use ping in a Sentence

ping

verb

• Pebbles pinged off the car.
• And the alerts will ping phones again.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 13 Feb. 2026
• As Saft stood up, his phone pinged.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
• The porch light draws beetles that ping against the screen door.
  — Karen Brown, The Atlantic, 31 Aug. 2021
• The country doesn’t want to ping-pong back and forth like that.
  — Karl Rove, WSJ, 9 June 2021
• Once the news broke, his phone pinged with texts and calls from all around the league.
  — Andrew Callahan, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2026
• My wife sent a news alert about an arrest and pinged it over to me.
  — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 17 July 2023
• Police have not been able to ping her phone either.
  — Abigail Adams, PEOPLE, 4 Feb. 2026
• Power down anything that pings, dings and rings.
  — Ginni Saraswati, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
• My eyes would grow the size of ping pong balls, there was nothing else like it for me.
  — Caleb Stultz, The Courier-Journal, 1 Nov. 2022
• The mug shots pinged around the internet.
  — Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2025
• And even when straight running, the skis don’t ping around like other lightweights.
  — Marc Peruzzi, Outside Online, 9 Jan. 2022
• Did your smartphone ping you with alerts from the MyShake app?
  — Matthew Ballinger, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2022
• The phone pinged about two miles south of a tower near Puget Sound.
  — Natalie Morales, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2023
• The ball pinging across the net from one corner to the other.
  — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 26 May 2026
• Yeah, and the spooky way the guitars ping off one another is cool.
  — Jon Freeman, Rolling Stone, 11 Aug. 2022
• These connect to your accounts and ping you when somebody tries to log on.
  — Washington Post, 15 July 2021
• Leisek tracked the last location ping from Brown’s cell phone.
  — oregonlive, 19 May 2022
• Nobody’s boss could ping them from their pocket at dinner time.
  — Mike Weinberger, Rolling Stone, 27 July 2022
• Or your team pings you every morning for answers?
  — Lien De Pau, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
• By morning, the device was still pinging from the same spot.
  — Ginger Allen, CBS News, 10 Dec. 2025
• Gone were the rows of cots, hula hoops, soccer nets and ping pong tables.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Aug. 2021
• The request pings every blood tracker in the area who fits the hunter’s needs.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 14 Sep. 2023
• The ball pinged around and Messi pounced like a tiger onto the loose ball.
  — Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 7 July 2026
• Zoo staffers think both females laid the eggs, which are a little smaller than ping pong balls.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Oct. 2022
• Credit should ping from player to player as quickly as the ball does.
  — Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 7 June 2026
• The ball pinged back and forwards and Newcastle could not grip it.
  — George Caulkin, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2025
• As Bickerstaff likes to say, the two guards could ping pong off each other.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 8 Nov. 2022
• Stephanie and Jaedyn also went to search the area where Kylie’s phone last pinged.
  — Veronica Fulton, NBC news, 18 Dec. 2025
• Sooryavanshi missed his first two balls and got off the mark with a sketchy inside edge that pinged past his off stump.
  — ABC News, 4 July 2026