Ripley

[ rip-lee ]

noun

1. George, 1802–80, U.S. literary critic, author, and social reformer: associated with the founding of Brook Farm.

Ripley

/ ˈrɪplɪ /

noun

1. RipleyGeorge18021880MUSSOCIAL SCIENCE: social reformerRELIGION: transcendentalist George . 1802–80, US social reformer and transcendentalist: founder of the Brook Farm experiment in communal living in Massachusetts (1841)

Example Sentences

Her Ripley novels featuring the captivating murderer Tom Ripley have also been adapted into movies.

From Washington Blade

Like a jumbo version of Ripley’s power loader from Aliens, the Avatel robot allows a single employee to place explosive charges to access to the gold, copper, and iron ore.

From Popular-Science

Taking place after the events of the 1979 cinema classic, Ripley’s daughter takes to the stars chasing rumors of her missing mother.

From Time

The scene, Ripley observes, is “like boxers entering a ring for a fight.”

From The Daily Beast

At a Finnish school, Ripley interviews a teacher who articulates this way of thinking.

From The Daily Beast

The difference with Ripley was that she had won and survived.

From The Daily Beast

For the team that helped Nadia during those first days at Camp Ripley, her case is one they cannot forget.

From The Daily Beast

“She ended up becoming a part of Ripley,” said Capt. Stibral.

From The Daily Beast

Then they had said that the boss stayed up with Mr. Ripley that night until after ten o'clock, and had then gone up to go to bed.

From Project Gutenberg

Mr. Ripley says they sat in the lobby until after ten o'clock, and then Mr. Norcross went up to his rooms.

From Project Gutenberg

Ripley briefed the general situation as it stood on the night of the engine theft in a few terse sentences.

From Project Gutenberg

I remembered what he had said to Ripley about a woman's giving him germ ideas and such things, and I guess it was really so.

From Project Gutenberg

In another field, and this time under Ripley's instructions, our ex-cow-punch' had been able to set and bait a trap.

From Project Gutenberg