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

Could he be a ringer in Duke intramural basketball?

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2025

Tom Hollander is a dead ringer for Capote, while Naomi Watts’ Babe Paley is stunning and tragic.

From Salon • Dec. 20, 2024

And I had one ringer where the shoe wrapped itself around the top of the post, spun around a couple of times, and then dropped onto the sand.

From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt