How to Use ping in a Sentence

ping

verb

• Pebbles pinged off the car.
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024