ping

Example Sentences

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I played their game like ping pong, returning their quick-fire questions.

From The Wall Street Journal

"We get notifications every time a new case is confirmed in the UK and it's been pinging quite frequently, unfortunately," Ms Postance said.

From BBC

The cast and the Braggs recognized pinball’s colorful, whimsical joy, the flashing lights, the pinging pop bumpers, all of which makes for cool cinematography.

From Washington Post

While I was speaking to those whose lives had been devastated by Martine's death and were desperate for answers, my phone was continually pinging with messages from Farouk.

From BBC

We have been conditioned for distraction: the ping of a text, the knock-knock of a Slack message, the itchy urge while doing one thing that we ought to be doing something else.

From Salon