ripple
verb (used without object)
(of a liquid surface) to form small waves or undulations, as water agitated by a breeze.
rippleless
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a word derived from
ripple.
Example Sentences
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The sea ahead was polished and rippleless, the way to Point Barrow was open, and already the land had bent to the north and west.
From The Ice Pilot by Henry Leverage
A few minutes past the deck glistened in the sun as each rollicking billow sent its herald over the bows, and here the surface of the river is almost rippleless.
From Tropic Days by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield
Then the full reddish disk stood upon a strong copper pillar, smooth and flawless in a rippleless lake, and that became denuded of its capital as the ball rose over it into the sky.
From The Cursed Patois From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 by Mary Hartwell Catherwood
In his white, still, rippleless way, Senator Hanway hated in his soul's soul the name of Governor Obstinate.
From The President A novel by Alfred Henry Lewis
I have had the same feelings in church when the sermon ran rippleless and even over my head.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
