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

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

From Salon • Dec. 20, 2024

If Santa were skinny and endlessly energetic, he’d be a dead ringer for Scott Wardlaw, president and chief cheerleader of Altadena’s 104-year holiday tradition known as Christmas Tree Lane.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2024

She had turned off the ringer of her phone.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie