ping

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I listen to Togo push his bowl from one side of the kitchen to the other, the metal dish pinging against the baseboards.

From Literature

Play long enough, and the speed of the ping pong light ball increases, racing across the expanse until a player can’t keep up.

From The Wall Street Journal

We sit in silence for a minute, and then Eddie’s phone pings.

From Literature

The fire reached out toward the house with greedy arms, and embers pinged off the walls and windows.

From Literature

As I bent down to collect them, I bumped the sewing basket off Aunt Kitty’s chair and heard the sound of a hundred tiny straight pins ping their way across my aunt’s freshly swept floor.

From Literature