ring up
Example Sentences
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It could ring up $11 billion in peak yearly sales, analysts project.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026
I used to ring up Freeman Dyson, the famed physicist, at the slightest excuse.
From Slate • Dec. 9, 2025
I used to ring up people like Alex Ferguson and Mick McCarthy and I remember Mick asking how it was going.
From BBC • Mar. 20, 2024
Merchants hurried to ring up purchases and shuttered storefronts.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 4, 2024
“I’m gonna ring up the cops in about one minute.”
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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