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How to use ringer in a sentence

19 example sentences · noun

Ringer means someone who rings, especially a bell ringer. Example: “That man over there is an exact ringer for my father!”

Examples of ringer by meaning

nounA stockman, a cowboy.

  • This vast holding is run by six ringers and six boys.1987, Geoffrey Atkinson, Philip Quirk., The Australian Adventure: The Explorer′s Guide to the Island Continent, page 175
  • Most people associated with the Australian beef industry believe the ringer′s skill of throwing cattle by the tail to be a practice that is purely Australian.2005, Jake Drake, The Wild West in Australia and America, page 156

nounA person highly proficient at a skill or sport who is brought in, often fraudulently, to supplement a team.

  • In this next clip from the security camera, we see that the rube flashing his wad of cash thinks he'll win, but he doesn't realize that the guy in the gray shirt is a ringer.

nounA fraudulently cloned (or cut-and-shut) motor vehicle.

  • I had heard early on in my career about 'ringers': cars that were stolen and cloned, but it was 1993 before I was to experience this first-hand.2020, Tom Hartley, Tom Hartley: The Dealmaker

nounA person, animal, or entity which resembles another so closely as to be taken for the other; a look-alike (now usually...

  • That man over there is an exact ringer for my father!
  • You threw out a ringer for a ringer!1998, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, The Big Lebowski (motion picture), spoken by The Dude (Jeff Bridges)

nounAn officer having the specified number of rings (denoting rank) on the uniform sleeve.

  • A group of naval one- and two-ringers were chatting by the office door with a few ratings, complete with kit-bags and oilskins.2012, John Harris, The Lonely Voyage
  • The senior officer of the escort was an RN two and a half ringer who had a reputation of being one of the best.2013, Dudley Pope, Convoy

nounA ringer T-shirt.

  • The shirts were light blue heather ringers with royal blue trim on the necks and sleeves.2011, Buck Peden, Baseball, Golf, Wars, Women & Puppies: An Autobiography, page 278

More sentences with ringer

  • The ringer tolled the workers back from the fields for vespers.From the entry toll
  • He is a dead ringer for his grandfather at that age.From the entry dead ringer
  • Throw the shoe from behind the line, and try to get it to land circling (a ringer) or touching the far stake.From the entry shoe
  • In electronic telephones, this ringer may be a small electronic warbler rather than a bell.2011, Leif Madsen, Jim Van Meggelen, Russell Bryant, Asterisk: The Definitive Guide, page 598. From the entry warbler
  • Featurewise, Tiffany and her mother were dead ringers, but Tiffany always did interesting things to her hair.2001, Leslie O'Kane, When the fax lady sings. From the entry featurewise
  • He is world-famous writer Ezra Blazer, a dead ringer for Philip Roth, with whom Halliday had a relationship in her 20s.2018 February 28, Justine Jordan, “Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday review – a dizzying debut”, in The Guardian. From the entry dead ringer
  • Ball was always available to us in the anatomy lab giving us tips and tricks for bell ringers.2018 May 24, “Meet today's Faculty of Health Sciences valedictorian”, in McMaster Daily News, archived from the original on 03 Apr 2023. From the entry bell ringer
  • The fully equipped Krom model has a multibar grille that is a dead ringer for the ones now found on Fords.2009 May 31, Phil Patton, “Bulldog in a Box, in Shades”, in New York Times. From the entry multibar
  • It provides terms and conditions including rates of pay, hours of work and general conditions for shearers, crutchers, wiggers, ringers, shedhands, wool-pressers and cooks.2010, D. J. Cottle, International Sheep and Wool Handbook, page 743. From the entry crutcher
  • Ten minutes into my hovering gig, my neckerchiefed bell ringer turned to me and said, “Mom, that guy just walked into the store with a WART.”2007 January 6, Denise Snodell, “Hot Toy Hunt Ends in Serendipity”, in Lee’s Summit/Southland Neighborhood News (The Kansas City Star)…. From the entry neckerchiefed

Meaning of ringer

  1. noun Someone who rings, especially a bell ringer.
  2. noun A crowbar.
  3. noun A person who places rings or bands on a bird's leg.

Full definition of ringer

Questions about ringer in a sentence

How do you use ringer in a sentence?
Ringer is used as a noun. For example: “That man over there is an exact ringer for my father!”
What is a short sentence with ringer?
“You threw out a ringer for a ringer!”
What does ringer mean?
Ringer means someone who rings, especially a bell ringer.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ringer (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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