ripple

Object

• muscle: What once may have been supple, rippling muscles were now tattered pieces of rotting flesh hanging off the bone.
• surface: Then it settled back into a gently rippling surface like a vertical fish pond.
• sand: Local deposition of rippled sands on the lower slope suggests peak currents in the order of 30-40 cms -1.
• 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.

Preposition: on

• pond: Make ripples on the pond to direct the food toward the ducks.

Converse of object

• send: Even the smallest idea or action sends a ripple out into the world.
• cause: Already starting to cause a ripple in the Welsh blues scene.

Adjective modifier

• slight: This will put a slight ripple in the tab which will then it make it fit more securely.
• tiny: Tiny ripples swam for a short distance into the lake.
• gentle: The slight Pacific tide was running in with a gentle ripple.

Modifies a noun

• voltage: This creates the sawtooth waveform known more commonly as ripple voltage.
• 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.

Noun used with modifier

• raspberry: Raspberry ripple flavor ice cream still brings back memories of summer days at sports day.
• sand: As a result, it is possible to distinguish, for example, between sand ripples and boulder fields.

Preposition: in

• puddle: In the midst of new wave and 80's rock it causes little more than a ripple in a puddle.
• pond: I saw the concentric circles like ripples in a pond.

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.