The phrase "a pebble thrown" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an action involving a small stone being thrown, often in a metaphorical or illustrative context.
Example: "The sound of a pebble thrown into the still water created ripples that spread across the surface."
Alternatives: "a stone cast" or "a rock hurled".
"Murder is like a pebble thrown into a family: first comes the splash, then come the ripples, and they're never ending".
A golfer swipes at a speech bubble emerging from a mouth; the glob becomes a coin or a pebble thrown by a girl.
If you have a box full of photons governed by one wave function, and one escapes, the escapee remains entangled in the fate of the particles it left behind — like the outer edges of the ripples spreading from a pebble thrown into a pond.
"It's like a pebble thrown into a pond," says Curt Struck, an Iowa State University astronomer and a member of the team that took the image.
This study evaluates, by experiment and numerical analysis, the effects of a pebble thrown from the front wheel and hitting the down tube of a carbon-epoxy bicycle frame (the Guru Cycles Photon R).
For a few hours, the waves propagate outward over the solar surface at a speed of up to 100 kilometers per second, "like ripples from a pebble thrown in a pond," says Zharkova.
With that he developed his mantra, "Change starts with someone, so why not me?" The impact of his actions can be compared to a small pebble thrown into a large lake.
Those pioneers -- the guys that threw the fit at Stonewall -- that velvet revolution was the pebble thrown in the ocean that really did rock a wave on the shore.
S-Bursts sound like popcorn popping, or, as Flagg has noted, like "a handful of pebbles thrown onto a tin roof".
When cloud cover moved in, the howls spread out in a different geometry, overlapping like concentric circles from a handful of pebbles thrown into water.
They then return to Mecca to perform another circuit of the Ka'bah, going on to Mina for three more rounds of pebble throwing.
