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
Retired nurse Nancy Reed has been through the ringer trying to get insurance for her home next to a San Diego County nature preserve.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2025
"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
He warned me I’d get a shock when I met his wife, she was such a dead ringer for Carole Lombard.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
