ricochet

Sam Rockwell plays Frank, his slicker, more easygoing partner — he gives Cage’s tightly wound performance someone to ricochet off.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

Engineers said they were able to debunk some "myths", including that bullets can ricochet off the curve in the ballistic plate.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

The unpleasant market metaphor refers to the idea that even a lifeless feline when dropped from a height may initially ricochet off the ground.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 9, 2026

Ms. Frank’s unconventional, imaginatively orchestrated score maps their dreamlike journey as they ricochet through different planes of existence, and find resolution together in their love and their art.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026

And Elijah himself had a further, unnerving habit, which was to ricochet his questions and comments off someone else on their way to you.

From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin

You pine for an ugly deflection, a madcap own goal, one that ricochets in off McGinn's backside or the back of McBurnie's head.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

As AI spending ricochets across the enterprise, many organization leaders still can’t say with confidence what they’re actually getting for it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

"Is anyone alive in here?!" the voice of Moises Faramaya ricochets around the ruins of the same neighborhood.

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

In her refusal to shy away from the grime and grit of Yuknavitch’s story, Stewart creates a startlingly raw atmosphere that ricochets between discordant and truly inspiring.

From Salon ● Jan. 1, 2026

It gets within inches of me, then ricochets off some invisible force and hits a tree.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

Close-up shots of him face-to-face with Holmes have ricocheted across social media and already become the stuff of meme gold.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

Djokovic was serving for a place in the final when the ball ricocheted off the back of the court.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

His words immediately ricocheted around the internet, as it’s generally understood that humans are the victimizers in such situations.

From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026

Alek Thomas led off with a double to left that ricocheted off the wall on a hop.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026

We didn't talk about the blood on the handkerchiefs or the coughs that ricocheted from the back of my house.

From "We Are Okay" by Nina LaCour

A moment later the battery replied with their 9-tonners, sending forth shot after shot, most of which, however, ricochetted away over the glassy sea.

From The Great War in England in 1897 by William Le Queux

There was a loud pop, the cork struck against the ceiling, ricochetted around the walls of the room and caused a commotion by falling on Vinegar's bald head.

From The Ten-foot Chain or, Can Love Survive the Shackles? A Unique Symposium by Achmed Abdullah

He had not gone twenty yards when another shot ricochetted off a stone, and flew up into the air with a shrill chirrup.

From Soldiers of the Queen by Harold Avery

Just as Anton Lundt emerged, a twenty-four pounder struck the water within a few yards of his back, but ricochetted exactly over his head, merely stunning him for a moment with the spray.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 457 Volume 18, New Series, October 2, 1852 by William Chambers

Others, striking the earth with a dull thud, ricochetted within a few inches of his feet.

From Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force by Ernest Prater

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

The incident has fueled a storm of late-summer ridicule, with memes ricocheting across social media and commentators pointing to the almost slapstick nature of the scandal.

From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2025

With stocks falling and economists predicting price hikes across a broad range of imported goods, there are plenty of anxious questions ricocheting in supermarket aisles these days.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2025

The voice cut through the air like the twang of a ricocheting bullet.

From "Stone Fox" by John Reynolds Gardiner

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 Percival Lowell

For just then there was a puff of smoke from the cutter, and we could just make out, by the way it dipped, the round shot that went ricochetting over the sea.

From Devon Boys A Tale of the North Shore by Gordon Browne

These came down past us like cannon-balls, ricochetting by big bounds.

From Noto: an Unexplained Corner of Japan by Percival Lowell

The balls went skipping along after striking the ground a hundred yards or so beyond the enemy’s battery, and, ricochetting, darted right for the solid moving mass of men.

From The Young Castellan A Tale of the English Civil War by George Manville Fenn

There was a sharp crack from the shore; something whistled past Lydia's head, struck an upright post, splintering the edge, and with a whine went ricochetting into the sea.

From The Angel of Terror by Edgar Wallace