Example Sentences

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Now, the template of how the team made a softer, affordable diaper is ricocheting across the $33 billion company.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

Their motion resembles a pinball ricocheting between stationary posts.

From Science Daily • Nov. 17, 2025

In a city of strivers ricocheting around in congested isolation, the park is an island of repose, a place where lives intersect and time slows.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2023

It got even better for Paul Heckingbottom's on the stroke of half-time as Archer's arrowed effort hit the post before ricocheting off the unfortunate Pickford and into the net.

From BBC • Sep. 2, 2023

And it is the sight of her looking like some preposterous zombie that sends a hummingbird of panic ricocheting through me.

From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman