Example Sentences

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Just as we were turning the face of Screen cliff a sound of singing reached us, ricochetting over the water.

From Noto: an Unexplained Corner of Japan by Lowell, Percival

Down, leaping, ricochetting, thundering, hurtled a great boulder, spurning the cliff-face with a tremendous uproar.

From Darkness and Dawn by England, George Allan

The rain is followed by hailstones which fly through the defile in battalions—rolling, hopping, ricochetting, snapping, clattering down the shelving banks in an undefinable haze of confusion. 

From A Changed Man; and other tales by Hardy, Thomas

The shot dashed up the spray under the bows of the boats, and ricochetting over them, disappeared in the wave, about half a mile astern.

From The King's Own by Marryat, Frederick

"Uncle, do they pronounce that ricochaying or ricochetting?"

From Mr. Punch's Golf Stories by Various