Definition of "ricocheting" [ricocheting]

• Present participle of ricochet. (verb)

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• "For a long minute Kosta just stared at him, the word ricocheting around his brain like an angry grasshopper trying to escape from a jar."
• "We've been getting the outer bands here, you get these little storms kind of ricocheting off of them here and a lot of vorticity (ph) we call it or a lot of spin here into the atmosphere."
• "Scarcely had he advanced a hundred yards, when a cannon-shot, "ricocheting" as it went, struck his horse in the counter and rolled him dead on the plain."