ringer
Example Sentences
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My phone lives in the bathroom in a charger with the ringer on.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026
"It was really fun for us to put them through the ringer and to basically have them look at each other and say: 'Are these differences too much for our partnership to succeed?'"
From Barron's • Nov. 25, 2025
Tom Hollander is a dead ringer for Capote, while Naomi Watts’ Babe Paley is stunning and tragic.
From Salon • Dec. 20, 2024
"I think he's literally gone through the ringer," she said.
From BBC • Oct. 18, 2024
The man he approached was Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, Jr. A dead ringer for actor Jimmy Stewart, Vanderbilt was a gangly twenty-five-year- old whose gentle, self-effacing manner belied his fabulous wealth.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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