ricochet

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

After Chung and Klugo huddle, they line up on the court like two halves of the same body, moving in tandem as the balls ricochet off rackets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 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

Sound ricochets between the high houses; she feels, as she did in her first hour here, as if she has stepped into a maze.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

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

But then he appeared to backtrack after his critique made headlines and ricocheted around social media.

From Salon ● Sep. 15, 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

It ricocheted off his gladius and blasted Percy off his horse.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan

Striking the water within twenty yards of its objective, the missile had ricochetted, and had shattered the torpedo-boat's foremost funnel.

From The Dispatch-Riders The Adventures of Two British Motor-cyclists in the Great War by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

Suddenly the car skidded on a slippery hillside, turned from the road, plowed through a clump of scrub, ricochetted against a dark obstruction, poised a moment on two wheels, turned around and stopped.

From The Cow Puncher by Robert J. C. Stead

A few moments after another struck the ground right by us and ricochetted.

From From the Rapidan to Richmond and the Spottsylvania Campaign A Sketch in Personal Narration of the Scenes a Soldier Saw by William Meade Dame

Marjorie, by the way of answer, hit her ball so that it jumped and missed his, ricochetted across the lawn and out of the ground on the further side.

From Marriage by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

The last shot kicked up a yellow fountain of spray in the glare of the searchlight, and ricochetted, humming, over the target and on towards Malaya.

From H.M.S. —— by John Graham Bower

Because helium’s industrial uses are so broad, shortages are ricocheting through multiple sectors and countries at once.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026

Here, Smith shows off his footballing skills to stop the ball from ricocheting on to the stumps during the Lord's Test.

From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2025

They hugged one another and recounted slightly discombobulated stories of bullets ricocheting off cellphones and even someone’s teeth.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2025

Their motion resembles a pinball ricocheting between stationary posts.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 17, 2025

From these special points, then, human voices would carry, echoing and ricocheting, throughout the whole subterranean system.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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

From Noto: an Unexplained Corner of Japan by Percival Lowell

They could hear it descending, not at a single drop, but striking and ricochetting from side to side.

From The Lone Ranche by Mayne Reid

A ball struck close to the stroke-oar of the gig, deluging its occupants with water and ricochetting over the gunwale of the boat, between the stroke-oar and Mr. Hethcote.

From Jack Archer by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Many glanced, spun ricochetting into the sea, and with a venomous buzzing like huge, angry hornets, lost themselves in quick, white spurts of foam.

From The Flying Legion by George Allan England

As a matter of fact the street was full of ricochetting trifles.

From Adventures of a Despatch Rider by William Henry Lowe Watson