Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an undulating manner; so as to ripple: as, the stream ran ripplingly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a rippling manner.
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- adverb With a
rippling motion.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Dynamic, well-executed, with a great seamless navigation system and ripplingly fast response.
Archive 2009-02-01 2009
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Lion Bar Ice Cream commissioned a survey into what sort of men women find attractive, presumably in the forlorn hope that “a man with his face in a Lion Bar Ice Cream” or “those hunks made ripplingly obese by an ice cream-only diet” would be among the responses.
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Dynamic, well-executed, with a great seamless navigation system and ripplingly fast response.
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That's why Superman and Captain America are tall and ripplingly muscled, why Catwoman and Elektra are curvy and ripped, why all the heroes wear skintight outfits, and -- ideally -- part of why both men and women find them fun to look at.
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It came to me that the light that illumined the tunnel was given out by tiny points deep within the stone, sprang from the points ripplingly and spread upon their polished faces.
The Moon Pool 2004
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It came to me that the light that illumined the tunnel was given out by tiny points deep within the stone, sprang from the points ripplingly and spread upon their polished faces.
The Moon Pool 1919
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Thus her tongue, running ripplingly on, while her heart, suddenly released from its numb depression, wired her blithe reassurance.
Jane Journeys On Ruth Comfort Mitchell 1918
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She ran on, ripplingly, but her escort at one side and Sarah Farraday at the other were maintaining, respectively, a sullen and an uncomfortable silence.
Jane Journeys On Ruth Comfort Mitchell 1918
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It came to me that the light that illumined the tunnel was given out by tiny points deep within the stone, sprang from the points ripplingly and spread upon their polished faces.
The Moon Pool Abraham Merritt 1913
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Mademoiselle, after a moment's blank pause, laughed ripplingly.
Scaramouche Rafael Sabatini 1912
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