[
US
/ˈɹɪpəɫd/
]
[ UK /ɹˈɪpəld/ ]
[ UK /ɹˈɪpəld/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- uneven by virtue of having wrinkles or waves
-
shaken into waves or undulations as by wind
with ruffled flags flying
the rippled surface of the pond
How To Use rippled In A Sentence
- Gulf War veterans fighting to prove hundreds of former servicemen have been crippled and killed by a mysterious syndrome caused by their time in the conflict have been dealt a massive blow - their own solicitors say the case is unprovable.
- Ochre and red rippled across the male's mantle, in the delicate, complex traceries of which only males were capable.
- One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside. John Lennon
- A window lay open, and the curtain rippled gently in the night wind.
- The breeze rippled the water.
- Where the legal definitions of childhood were constructed in order to protect children against working in the mines until their bones grew soft from lack of sunlight or weaving rugs until their legs were crippled from sitting and they were going blind, these same definitions have been used to create target groups for "otherness" - and ugly otherness at that. Thinking with my fingers
- I peered outside at fishermen in green quilted waistcoats sat sheltered beneath big umbrellas beside a pond rippled by raindrops.
- However, if it rains, then the surface of their pond becomes rippled.
- The crippled US plane made an emergency landing on the Chinese island of Hainan.
- The base is made of rippled walnut and amboyna, inset with marquetry of acanthus in satinwood (sand-burnt for three-dimensional effect), which was done by a Welsh firm, Anita Marquetry.