rung

Example Sentences

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Piatti preferred to send him to play on the Futures tour, the lowest rung of men's professional tennis.

From BBC • Jun. 22, 2026

Downing Street has rung me before when previous tenants appeared on the threshold of the last chance saloon: Boris Johnson and Liz Truss.

From BBC • Jun. 13, 2026

The Medieval-castle-themed hotel on the south end of the Strip—signature attraction the Tournament of Kings show and dinner—is on the lowest rung of the MGM Resorts ladder in Las Vegas.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

If that’s so, you’d be in good shape overall, and you could roll that $310,000 into the next rung of your ladder pretty confidently.

From MarketWatch • May 11, 2026

The bell had rung, and the last of them were just going in.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner