ricochet's Usage Examples:

Matty Hamshaw's hopeful ball forward somehow ricocheted through to striker Barker who drilled home at the near post from 15 yards.

ricocheted around in the box before Duffy blasted home from six yards.

We threw ourselves down to the ground and could hear the bullets ricocheting off the rocks around us.

ricochet around the hall.

The car ricocheted back, spinning out of control.

ricochet from wall to wall, a series of loud thumps marking their progress.

A very fortuitous ricochet fell to Hogg only 5 yards from goal.

ricocheted off the studio lights.

ricocheted back, spinning out of control.

He crashes it down and a few stray cement shards ricochet off the brick wall behind me.

As Carmen glanced around the coop for something to use as a weapon, one of the chickens ricocheted off the wall and hit her head.

Thomas Morrow: policeman, killed by a bullet ricocheting off a factory wall at Camlough in 1972.

The gunfights have some nice details, especially the way Rosette's bullets ricochet with a little crucifix spark.

Synonyms:

kick, rebound, reverberate, recoil, kick back, jump, resile, take a hop, bound off, skip, spring, leap, bounce, bound, carom,

Antonyms:

accept, stay in place, unsworn, unconstipated, untreated,