ripples in a pond

Sound waves reverberated through the gas like ripples in a pond, causing baryons to clump together, forming the seeds of future galaxies and clusters of galaxies.

Like the ripples in a pond after you drop in a stone, it’s those waves that make the ground shake and cause damage.

Scenes rush and flow into each other, and subplots emerge and fade like ripples in a pond, as the focus floats languidly from one character to the other.

I can’t see it, but I sense it—a great deal of it—moving just beneath the dirt like ripples in a pond.

Yet Klausner said he doesn’t think the easing of restrictions makes much difference in what he said is a natural cycle in pandemics that typically “oscillate like ripples in a pond. Over time the peaks get smaller and further apart until it’s barely noticeable.”