How to Use ping in a Sentence

ping

verb
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  • The porch light draws beetles that ping against the screen door.
    — Karen Brown, The Atlantic, 31 Aug. 2021
  • The country doesn’t want to ping-pong back and forth like that.
    — Karl Rove, WSJ, 9 June 2021
  • The phone pinged about two miles south of a tower near Puget Sound.
    — Natalie Morales, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2023
  • Did your smartphone ping you with alerts from the MyShake app?
    — Matthew Ballinger, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2022
  • My wife sent a news alert about an arrest and pinged it over to me.
    — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 17 July 2023
  • My eyes would grow the size of ping pong balls, there was nothing else like it for me.
    — Caleb Stultz, The Courier-Journal, 1 Nov. 2022
  • The request pings every blood tracker in the area who fits the hunter’s needs.
    — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Holmes made a photo with a camera as the man ran away, then Holmes pinged the phone with his watch and found the phone in the snow.
    — David Hulen, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Apr. 2023
  • And even when straight running, the skis don’t ping around like other lightweights.
    — Marc Peruzzi, Outside Online, 9 Jan. 2022
  • Yeah, and the spooky way the guitars ping off one another is cool.
    — Jon Freeman, Rolling Stone, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Leisek tracked the last location ping from Brown’s cell phone.
    — oregonlive, 19 May 2022
  • Hail the size of ping pong balls or larger fell in an area larger than the state of Rhode Island.
    — Matthew Cappucci, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Apr. 2021
  • One of the top three uses for my Apple Watch is using it to ping my iPhone.
    — WSJ, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Gone were the rows of cots, hula hoops, soccer nets and ping pong tables.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Aug. 2021
  • There’s something to play for other than ping-pong balls.
    — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 18 Apr. 2021
  • One morning, early in the shutdown, Beasley’s phone pinged at 4 a.m. and his wife picked it up.
    — Megan Farrer, Dallas News, 14 Sep. 2023
  • These connect to your accounts and ping you when somebody tries to log on.
    — Washington Post, 15 July 2021
  • As Bickerstaff likes to say, the two guards could ping pong off each other.
    — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 8 Nov. 2022
  • In the ninth minute, Gyasi Zardes’ header pinged off the post, and Driussi had a header saved by Bingham.
    — oregonlive, 17 Sep. 2023
  • Zoo staffers think both females laid the eggs, which are a little smaller than ping pong balls.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Which was why her phone was on the table when the news alerts started pinging Thursday night.
    — Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2023
  • But there’s no telling what Greek-letter threat will be ping-ponging around the globe by the time winter sets in, or how good a match the shots will be.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 28 June 2022
  • The laps rolled by and nothing much happened except that a few people started drop ping out of the lead pack.
    — Richard A. Lovett, Outside Online, 1 Sep. 2021
  • Oh, and table tennis, aka ping pong, kicks off at 8 pm on July 23.
    — Eve Sneider, Wired, 13 Aug. 2021
  • If the storms end up more cellular, then the weather service said the threat for hail up to ping pong ball size would increase.
    — Leigh Morgan, al, 6 Mar. 2022
  • Police were able to ping her cell phone and locate the vehicle -- with her in it -- stopped at a Pearl Road address.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 13 July 2022
  • And, of course, your colleague on the receiving end will hear only one Knock Brush ping instead of 17.
    — Wired, 13 Aug. 2022
  • But with the Warriors’ other key players in and out of the lineup this season, Poole has ping-ponged between the starting unit and the bench.
    — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Apr. 2022
  • Cameras are used to capture images of license plates pinged for a felony, which police use to track down the driver.
    — The Enquirer, 1 Mar. 2024
  • However, the warrant said Vargas’ cell phone pinged off of a tower near the residence later in that afternoon.
    — Jeff A. Chamer, Charlotte Observer, 13 Feb. 2024

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