ring a bell

Example Sentences

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There are less well remembered presidents, for sure — does the name John Tyler ring a bell? — and assassins better known than Guiteau, but if you’re going to make a docudrama, it does help to choose a story that might be more surprising to viewers and comes with a murder built in.

From Los Angeles Times

Mr. Cash’s name may ring a bell.

From The Wall Street Journal

These words also ring a bell, although I think the right’s depiction of Democrats as the party of elites — a party that includes most working-class people of color — paints with a pretty broad brush.

From Salon

Such requirements may ring a bell for Californians: Similar surveillance and limitations on immigrant education were core to Proposition 187, the 1994 ballot measure pushed by Republicans that is often credited with the demise of the GOP in the state.

From Los Angeles Times

The California Legislative Women’s Caucus was formed in 1985 and its founding members include Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters, a trailblazing and powerful member of Congress, and Rose Ann Vuich, the first woman elected to the state Senate who was known to ring a bell each time her colleagues in the Capitol addressed members as “gentlemen.”

From Los Angeles Times