Sentence examples for ripples from inspiring English sources

The word "ripples" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe the effects of something, like when a stone is thrown into a pond and the water starts to ripple outwards. For example, you could say: "The news of the scandal created ripples throughout the entire city."

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ripples

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Third person singular of ripple

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In contrast, the Thatcher hearse was met with ripples of polite applause from her well-wishers.

400 JOBS TO GO IN NEWCASTLE The ripples of 9/11 have reached the Tyne almost one year on: 400 jobs are to be axed by Siemens Power Generation at their CA Parsons plant in Newcastle.

Up yours, men! Doyen of disconcerting crooners, Daughn Gibson returns with yet another album full of intense storytelling set to cinematic soundscapes replete with ripples of sexuality and sinisterism.

Britain is the base for more manufacturers than any other European country: seven major carmakers, eight premium producers, nine bus builders and dozens of niche manufacturers – as well as eight of the 11 Formula One teams, a cluster of innovation that ripples through the industry.

The possibility of Greece defaulting on its obligations to the IMF is causing ripples in the financial markets.

All the same, ripples of controversy have spread over the casting of a rather exceptionally abled man to play someone severely disabled.

There's a fluidity about San Francisco's new-Cali cooking, a light, almost feminine touch – perhaps because two of the scene's pioneers were women: Alice Waters creating seismic ripples from her Chez Panisse in Berkeley, and Judy Rodgers (RIP) of the still-wonderful Zuni.

Facing a 48-hour deadline to produce a list of reforms that could make or break his insolvent country's future, the anti-austerity leader admitted the honeymoon was over for a government that had sent ripples of hope through Europe.

If he goes, the ripples will be felt throughout the region.

The Vix seems to behave rather like ripples in a pond after a stone has been thrown in the centre; turbulence at first, but after a while, serenity reappears.If the Vix was the only measure of market complacency, there would not necessarily be much to worry about.

A spectacular, wavelike steel and glass canopy, 1,300 metres long and 32 metres wide, ripples between eight pavilions that provide 530,000 square metres of floor space.Mr Fuksas's masterpiece is the latest of many regeneration projects that have improved Europe's face as governments, architects and developers have tackled some of industrialisation's ugly legacies.

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