Example sentences for: ripples

How can you use “ripples” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • She reaches out to touch the wall of the machine and it ripples, the way the highway seems to flutter on a hot day.

  • A few years later economists such as Paul Romer and Philippe Aghion applied related ideas to technological change and economic growth, giving birth to the "new growth theory"; and the ripples spread ever outward.

  • From its beginnings more than two thousand years ago, Barcelona has grown outwards in rings, like concentric ripples on a pond.

  • "Stegosaurs--the fat ones with ripples on their back."

  • Thus when Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott proposed a brief mid-afternoon break, Rehnquist responded, to ripples of laughter, "Let's keep going."


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