Example Sentences

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The advent of cellular technology has made it so much easier to track where any of us have been, simply by triangulating the locations of the cell towers our phones have pinged along the way.

From Salon • Jun. 25, 2025

While hundreds of millions have bought his books, critics and authors have pinged Patterson on his writing style and use of ghostwriters to help him publish multiple titles a year.

From Washington Post • Jun. 14, 2022

Over the decades, my weight has fluctuated widely as I have pinged between poles of excess and restriction, appetite and control, abstinence and snacking.

From New York Times • May 11, 2022

Quite a few of the bootlegs that have pinged around YouTube in the year since have a raw charm—you can hear the fans in them babbling with giddy narration and squealing like bobbysoxers.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 18, 2019

Long also offered a possible explanation for why Hairston’s cellphone would have pinged miles away from Goodloe’s house on the night she was killed.

From Washington Post • May 8, 2018