How to Use ripple in a Sentence

ripple

1 of 2 verb

• A cool breeze rippled the water.
• We could see the lion's muscles ripple.
• Water rippled under the dock.
• The two-plus decades drought has rippled through academia.
  — Matt Laslo, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2023
• With a knife that has a very fine edge, too much wear and tear can cause the steel to ripple or bend.
  — Laura Denby, Peoplemag, 10 Oct. 2023
• The episode highlights a wider debate now rippling through the art world.
  — Graham Bowley, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023
• The impact of the collapse is expected to ripple across the state and the Northeast.
  — Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN, 14 June 2023
• But how heat waves are rippling through the ground is much less studied.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 9 Oct. 2023
• The strike sparked a yearslong battle that would ripple throughout the state.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2022
• Ansel Adams looked through his lens from the sky and saw them as elegant waves rippling across the hills.
  — Curbed, 29 Nov. 2023
• Just a slight breeze rippled across the small cove separating them from the boat launch.
  — David Murray, USA TODAY, 14 Aug. 2023
• The wind picked up, rippling away reflections on the water.
  — Joe Heim, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2024
• On Sunday, the war’s impact again rippled across the region.
  — Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2023
• The exchanges came as tensions rippled outward from the Gaza Strip.
  — Edward Wong, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2023
• Outside, a hot breeze rippled through the fronds of towering palms.
  — Livia Albeck-Ripka, New York Times, 20 June 2023
• The medieval ramparts ripple over the hill like the tail of a mighty dragon, and the panorama swings around from the sparkling sea and port to the sunbaked city and mountains.
  — Lisa Johnson, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Nov. 2023
• And the impact will ripple far beyond the building itself.
  — Isabelle De Pommereau, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Dec. 2023
• In a small city in a small state, the loss of 18 people rippled widely, and the shooting shattered a sense of rural safety.
  — Justine McDaniel, Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2023
• The news rippled through Rock Academy halls like a joyful tidal wave.
  — Diane Bell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 May 2023
• Outside the floor-to-ceiling window of the dining room, long strands of dune grass rippled in a brisk offshore breeze.
  — Maria Shollenbarger, Travel + Leisure, 16 Sep. 2023
• This means the way in which its electric and magnetic fields ripple through space rotates along the axis of the ray much like threads on a screw.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 10 Apr. 2023
• Our analysis of videos shows how the raid rippled into one of the most violent encounters in the area in decades.
  — Raja Abdulrahim, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2023
• Those impacts are rippling through the city’s office market.
  — Catherine Carlock, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Apr. 2023
• The canvases, backed by a view of the inky-looking, silhouetted hills at dusk, ripple gently in the breeze.
  — Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2023
• The dust-up has reflected tensions that have rippled across the United States since the Israel-Gaza war began.
  — Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2023
• From the base, which was wrapped with hair, reddish zig-zags rippled towards her lower back.
  — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 28 Sep. 2023
• Still, the 7 A.M. sunlight seemed brighter than usual, and the water rippled in a disjointed way, like a film reel missing a few frames.
  — Shayla Love, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2023
• The rupture raced down the fault at nearly 2 miles per second, sending pressure waves rippling outward through the earth like the wake of a speedboat.
  — WIRED, 15 June 2023
• The sight broke the palpable tension rippling through an immense crowd lining the city’s lakefront.
  — Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 16 July 2023
• The fed-funds rate is the interest rate at which banks lend reserve balances to each other overnight, and changes to it ripple through the economy.
  — Steve Garmhausen, wsj.com, 1 Nov. 2023

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ripple

2 of 2 noun

• The pebble made ripples in the pond when I threw it in.
• This contrasts with the soft, flowing warmth of the red coral dome and the ripples of gold.
  — Rosie Jarman, ELLE, 7 Apr. 2023
• The fiberglass body of our test car had not a ripple across its curvy flanks.
  — Larry Webster, Car and Driver, 5 Aug. 2023
• At 80 to 90 mph, the slightest ripple of wind starts to nip at the Spectre's side glass.
  — Dave Vanderwerp, Car and Driver, 3 July 2023
• Bolduc sensed a supportive ripple from the crowd, and leaned in.
  — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2022
• Heavy bass ripples across the dancing crowd and ears meet mouths as friends try to make out a few words.
  — Arcelia Martin, Dallas News, 15 June 2023
• Among the things to watch: Will the expected red wave be a ripple or a tsunami?
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 8 Nov. 2022
• In the early days, Rosenberg’s work rarely made a ripple.
  — Mark Shanahan, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Apr. 2023
• Mixing and matching all those arms to bridge the gap creates ripples through the bullpen, too.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Aug. 2023
• Deliver the bait to a likely spot and let the ripples settle.
  — Gerald Almy, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2023
• Irving’s trade request was the restive ripple that spawned a tidal wave.
  — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Feb. 2023
• The move no doubt sends ripples through the rest of the draft order, though the actual fallout won't be known for some time.
  — Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2023
• While not made for high surf, the vehicle ensures riders avoid all the ripples of 1- to 2-foot waves.
  — Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2024
• The ripples from the March on Washington set Mr. Freeman’s life work in motion.
  — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2023
• Because what some saw as a forthcoming red wave turned out to be a ripple, at best.
  — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 9 Nov. 2022
• And that's exactly what's happening across the country and why the wave is going to be more of a - of a ripple rather than a tidal wave.
  — CBS News, 28 Aug. 2022
• As time passes, ripples spread farther and farther across the surface of the water.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 June 2023
• Family Man’s powerful bass ripples through the song with the force of a seismic tremor.
  — Patricia Meschino, Rolling Stone, 4 Feb. 2024
• To avoid that fuzz, researchers send current through wires so short that the ripples don’t have time to influence the electrons.
  — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 27 Nov. 2023
• But these babies cannot stay away from the alluring ripples.
  — USA Today, 26 June 2023
• In the middle ear, the spot inside the eardrum that turns vibrations in the air into ripples in the inner ear’s fluids has three bones.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 4 Apr. 2024
• Those ripples are likely to continue through the end of August.
  — Aruni Soni, BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2023
• But as election results came in Tuesday night, the great wave turned into a mere ripple.
  — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 9 Nov. 2022
• We’re made from ripples of a universe, and that is a very different picture.
  — Isaac Schultz / Gizmodo, Quartz, 19 Mar. 2024
• In the opening shot, ripples expand in puddles as raindrops fall.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 20 July 2023
• For all of his accomplishments, though, perhaps the most lasting is one that made barely a ripple at the time.
  — Kevin Scarbinsky | , al, 11 Apr. 2023
• Sometimes the oscillations are slowed down to a tidal ripple.
  — Ligaya Mishan Kyoko Hamada Martin Bourne, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2022
• Tassler: When Cote left, literally there was a ripple in the universe.
  — Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Sep. 2023
• Though actions dissipate like mist, and their ripples fade like scars too.
  — Riley Van Steward, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• Ocean ecosystems are finely balanced and any change in the phytoplankton will send ripples across the food chain.
  — Jack Guy, CNN, 12 July 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024