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Example sentences for: ripple

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One is the slight ripple on the surface of an otherwise flat sea, interpreted by sailors as portending a breeze.
It has weathered moderate earthquakes with nary a crack or untoward ripple, and looks as fit for the eventual big one as it did 20 years ago.
USA Today puts Israel on page 11 and goes instead with the latest ripple in a story that's been percolating below the fold for a while: allegations of vote-buying by the Salt Lake City Olympics bid committee in its successful drive to land the 2002 Winter Games.
The business section of Sunday's New York Times had a quiet, but definitive, feel of "Apocalypse Soon," featuring as it did three different columns arguing that the stock market was patently overvalued, that this overvaluation would eventually be corrected--perhaps in the form of a crash--and that that crash would have dramatic ripple effects on the rest of the economy as a whole even if, as seems certain it would, the Federal Reserve were to step up and cut interest rates to keep liquidity in the system.
Dwelly gives a `ripple on the surface of water'; and MacLennan says, `bristles, anger, a girning expression of countenance.