ripply

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The copperplate lines are so exact they mimic the individual venation of feathers; the neck of a gyrfalcon takes on all the ripply realism of moiréd silk.

From New York Times • Nov. 3, 2023

Zevin, 45, with her penetrating gaze and her shock of ripply black hair, doesn’t look tired but oh, she is.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2023

In the Obama childhood snapshots I’ve seen, the waves look just right, Kailua-ish, frothier than at any of the ripply Honolulu beaches his mother and Gramps could have taken him to.

From New York Times • Sep. 2, 2011

In western Kansas, high-blowing sands blurred the sun and built ripply dunes along the east-west highways.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then he heard that ripply sound that raised the hair, that high thin scream from far away coming out of the mist unbodied and terrible, inhuman.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara