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How to use the word ripples in a Sentence?

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While I may not have felt the flutter of butterflies in my stomach from a romantic encounter, I am well-versed in the transformative power of love and its ability to create ripples of kindness and compassion.

Yvonne Padmos

added by Freelancer
10 months ago

The love I feel when I hold your heart grows bigger and stronger even when we part and ripples through each galactic part until we meet again and you pick up my crushed heart. I will never let your love go.

Heather Lydia Thornhill

added by heatherthornhill
2 years ago

9/11 was so devastating, so tragic and then in many ways we lose so many more New Yorkers to this silent killer, it was a silent explosion that just ripples through society with the same randomness, the same evil that we saw on 9/11.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We're just early. We will see surges in other places, it's like a rock thrown into a pond and it ripples out.

Arthur Caplan

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The wind is the moon's imagination wandering. It seeps through cracks, ripples the grass, explores the unknown. My love is my soul's imagination.

Saul Williams

added by anonymous
4 years ago

Within world football, this is almost certainly the largest ever sports enterprise valuation, when we look at major league baseball and the eye watering deals in the NFL and even e-sports now, this news will no doubt cause ripples across the sporting and private equity worlds.

Bryn Anderson

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Already on social media, you're seeing people say,' maybe I'm going to stream on Mixer,' these are ripples but eventually ripples turn into a wave. We don't know when it could reach critical mass.

Doron Nir

Found on CNN
5 years ago

People need to recognize that there's multiple levels of people affected. It's not just the people who directly saw something or were directly injured or lost someone that they loved, it ripples through a community, it shatters a lot of people's belief about the safety of your community, of the world.

Erika Felix

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Young people are creating ripples and are more politically awakened.

Anusorn Unno

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We've gone from being a niche industry dependent on subsidy feed-in tariffs to an industry that can compete on more normal market conditions. And that ripples through the chain.

Chief Executive Anders Runevad

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

It is astonishing to see how the ripples caused by man-made explosions can affect the edge of space. Each raid released the energy of at least 300 lightning strikes, the sheer power involved has allowed us to quantify how events on the Earth’s surface can also affect the ionosphere.

Chris Scott

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The images of neighborhoods across Europe reduced to rubble due to wartime air raids are a lasting reminder of the destruction that can be caused by man-made explosions, but the impact of these bombs way up in the Earth's atmosphere has never been realized until now. It is astonishing to see how the ripples caused by man-made explosions can affect the edge of space. Each raid released the energy of at least 300 lightning strikes. The sheer power involved has allowed us to quantify how events on the Earth's surface can also affect the ionosphere.

Chris Scott

Found on CNN
6 years ago

It's a big splash with some ripples, it's a big event but the global ramifications are actually quite muted. We could see further resignations come through but I don't think that will lead to a change in government.

Kerry Craig

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

That is interfering with the market and that in the end is going to have an economic effect on the cost of electricity, so, that ripples back to all the people that are paying for electricity.

Karin Wadsack

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

It’s another bombshell blindsiding the palace, it’s extraordinary that Meghan and Harry didn’t know this was going to take place. Why didn’t her father tell her? Who’s giving him PR advice? You just chucked a big rock into the royal pool, and there’ll be ripples, and the ripples are coming.

Paul Burrell

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Shootings can leave victims with permanent physical and emotional disabilities, including symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury, the survivors of homicide never move on completely from their devastating loses. Bullets in the air leave permanent pain in the heart and create ripples of sorrow in families and communities that affect generations to come.

Arthur Lurigio

Found on CNN
6 years ago

It just seemed like, OK, well, here’s somebody who had an intimate relationship with somebody he shouldn’t have had an intimate relationship with. And I always said, ‘Well, who hasn’t?’ to myself. But then, when I was able to see from the epicenter, the ripples, I thought, yeah, they could have fired me. But they didn’t. So I owe them that.

David Letterman

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Gravitational waves are literally ripples in the curvature of space-time that are caused by collisions of heavy and compact objects like black holes and neutron stars.

Abhay Ashtekar

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Be the radiator of peace. Go to the center of your inner being and radiate peace in every direction. Our wings may be small but the ripples of the heart are infinite.

Amit Ray

added by anonymous
8 years ago

What a vindication of the belief that ordinary people can do extraordinary things, what a reminder of what Bobby Kennedy once said, about how small actions can be like pebbles being thrown into a still lake, and ripples of hope cascade outwards and change the world.

President Barack Obama

Found on CNN
9 years ago

It will be more about ripples than a tidal wave.

Byron Callan

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

An extremely positive number could cause some ripples, particularly given the timing of a Fed rate hike, as it would suggest that any slack in the US labour market could disappear faster than anticipated.

Michael Hewson

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

An extremely positive number could cause some ripples particularly given the timing of a Fed rate hike, as it would suggest that any slack in the US labour market could disappear faster than anticipated.

Michael Hewson

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

If this does really well, obviously, the tide will keep turning towards online, it could send ripples down the line in terms of how Hollywood is going to release its products.

Jeff Bock

Found on Reuters
10 years ago

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