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ripple - use in sentences
Preposition: on
- pond: Make ripples on the pond to direct the food toward the ducks.
Converse of object
- cause: Already starting to cause a ripple in the Welsh blues scene.
Object
- wave: The camera peers up at them through the rippling waves, linking them together in subtle ways, instead of being overly emphatic.
- wash: The low rippling wash of the tide across the pebbly shore was in his ears; the salt wind was in his throat.
Adjective modifier
- tiny: Tiny ripples swam for a short distance into the lake.
- gentle: The slight Pacific tide was running in with a gentle ripple.
Noun used with modifier
- sand: As a result, it is possible to distinguish, for example, between sand ripples and boulder fields.
Modifies a noun
- effect: The ripple effect they want to cause is fear.
- mark: Look toward bedding planes showing ripple marks on the left / west side of the quarry.
Preposition: in
- pond: I saw the concentric circles like ripples in a pond.
- puddle: In the midst of new wave and 80's rock it causes little more than a ripple in a puddle.
Preposition: of
- applause: They came to the stage to a tiny ripple of applause.
- laughter: Have a go... " The visitor called out " 45 " and there was a small ripple of polite laughter.
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