0 present participle of ricochet --
1 If a ball or bullet ricochets, it hits a surface and moves away from it at an angle: --
The ball ricocheted off the goalkeeper and into the net.
One of the helmets falls off, ricocheting off the floor and levitating just in front of the sleigh, its face-guard lifting to reveal a skeletal face screeching within.
However, images are colorful, and the ricocheting narrative--each chapter ending in suspense and the next chapter jumping to a different plotline--pulls readers to a surprisingly satisfying conclusion.
He cited passages that alternatively explored the poet's most intimate layers before ricocheting back out into airy ponderings.
This resulted in his brain separating from his brain stem and ricocheting in his skull.
It is less likely to endanger others by passing through the immediate target, or ricocheting from a hard surface.
Places, emotions, musical sounds and rhythms, generations, individuals, groups, chapters, and different voices of the book are represented as ' echoing' or ' ricocheting' off each other in multiple ways.