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• v  stir up (water) so as to form ripples
• v  flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise
• s  uneven by virtue of having wrinkles or waves
• s  shaken into waves or undulations as by wind
  the rippled surface of the pond

• It was both a symbol and a symptom of the revolution that rippled across Ukraine last week.
• Don Laviletta, riding his motorcycle on the upper deck, described how the roadway bulged and rippled toward him "like bumper cars -- only you could die in this game.
• Through the waiting crowd rippled a common joke: "The crew must have asked the captain to head for the nearest bar.

• ripple
• ruffle
• riffle
• cockle
• undulate
• babble
• guggle
• burble
• bubble
• gurgle
• crinkled
• crinkly
• wavy
• wavelike
• ruffled

News & Articles

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• Bond Report: Treasurys hold gains after weak auction
  Treasurys held onto gains Thursday despite a weak auction of 30-year bonds as concerns about the Bank of Japan’s monetary easing policies rippled through global markets.
  June 13, 2013 - Market Watch
• Stock no worse for the wear, despite layoffs
  IBM stock was down slightly Wednesday despite news of company layoffs, which rippled through the mid-Hudson Valley and around the world.
  June 13, 2013 - Poughkeepsie Journal
• Burlington High School graduates more than 250 students
  The weather was perfect. A small breeze rippled through the sunlit athletic field at Burlington High School every now and again.  But the restless crowd wanted to see something that couldn’t be handed to them by Mother Nature.  Mixed in among the people waiting were parents and siblings and relatives and friends who had been waiting for 13 years for this one moment.  The moment when they could ...
  June 10, 2013 - Burlington Union

Quotes

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• Arnold Schwarzenegger in San Francisco Chronicle
  Effects of the January freeze have rippled through the economies of our farming communities, hurting thousands of people who depend on a rich, healthy harvest for their livelihoods,Schwarzenegger said in a statement.
• Kenneth Rogoff in International Herald Tribune
  Certainly the most dramatic thing happening is that the financial crisis has rippled out to emerging markets,Rogoff said. "We're entering a really fierce global recession. A significant financial crisis has been allowed to morph into a...
• Bart Stupak in Forbes
  I am extremely disappointed that Congress was put in a position to have to consider spending taxpayer dollars to clean up the messes of Wall Street, whose irresponsible actions have rippled throughout our financial system and threaten the economic... Marion Berry http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Berry&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHUYtJ3FO2jwHsJeSwEZE5SToxHAg ArkansasSports360.com http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/article.aspx%3Faid%3D108683.54928.120812&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNErGNl7pqnIncyDx12YjlA9Hya0sw Sep 29, 2008 84244 111944 rippling Make no mistake about it, the excessive speculation in commodity markets is having a devastating effect at the gas pump that is rippling through our entire economy," said Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., who chaired the hearing of a House Energy and...