Ripples

Word RIPPLES
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Definitions and meanings of "Ripples"

What do we mean by ripples?

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

A sound similar to that of undulating water.

A style of ice cream in which flavors have been coarsely blended together.

A small oscillation of an otherwise steady signal.

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The word "ripples" in example sentences

Never mind that it only takes a “small amount of people” to have an effect on a much larger group, like ripples from a stone dropping in a pond. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Elsewhere, the ripples from the prostitution ring in which the governor of New York was ultimately forced to resign as client number nine is extending its waves across the Atlantic to ensnare British clients. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But the ripples from the subprime crisis are now beginning to affect nearly everyone. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Wooden bobbers drift in ripples while bullheads stir to the dance, the sensuous tangle of worms. ❋ Unknown (2007)

For broadcast TV, the court decisions that have destroyed the FCC's affirmative action and media diversity programs play out in ripples as well as in the splash that whitewashes broadcast media. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The ripples from the new media have far reaching consequences. ❋ Unknown (2005)

So the ripples from the Rose, Orange, and Tulip revolutions and any other progress towards democracy throughout the world, continue to expand here. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Steve Gilliard looks at some ripples from the transit strike in NYC that will last long afterward. ❋ Unknown (2005)

But over the course of the next quarter century, the ripples from a large-scale demographic shift would alter the face of tea advertising forever. ❋ Unknown (2005)

This is a base set on Mars, and it shows; there are detailed bulkheads, video screens that play commercials, windows complete with shutters, and broken gas lines shooting realistic fire - complete with air that ripples from the heat. ❋ Apocalypse_0 (2004)

Steam rose in ripples from his bare, weather-browned skin. ❋ Unknown (2003)

At Scrougeville -- how softly the name ripples on the ear! ❋ John Beatty (N/A)

However, the fall of Gaddafi will also set in motion some longer-term ripples. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In the first months, teachers devoted considerable time and energy practicing quiet hallway transitions and stifling classroom "ripples" -- the outbursts and giggles that had been tolerated in students' previous schools. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Nevertheless, its fame spreads slowly, and each year new discoverers flock in growing numbers to the one little hotel and its ramshackle bath-house, so that the community once absolutely and viciously utilitarian begins to take timid account of its aesthetic surroundings, and here and there a little log-cabin (as appropriate to this land as the chalet to the Alps) is built beside the calling ripples of the river, while saddled horses, laden burros in long lines, and now and then a vast yellow or red ore-wagon creaking dolefully as it descends, still give evidence of the mining which goes on far up the zigzag trails towards the soaring, shining peaks of the Continental Divide. ❋ Hamlin Garland (1900)

As the researchers put it on the experiment’s website, The fact that our simplified systems produce washboard ripples is important since it shows that neither tyres nor suspension are necessary to obtain washboard roads, although of course, adding a spring, a dashpot, a tyre or an engine would affect the size of the bumps. ❋ Ewillett (2009)

This phrase ripples from the Caribbean Sea to Thoreau's Walden Pond of wisdom: If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. ❋ Victoria Fine (2011)

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