How to use ringing in a sentence

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• Racing to answer the ringing telephone, he left the toilet unflushed and did not wash his hands.From the entry unflushed
• The bells were ringing in the town.From the entry ring
• It was nice to have a rest from the phone ringing when I unplugged it for a while.From the entry rest
• The phone was ringing off the hook all night.From the entry off the hook
• The performance was disturbed twice by a ringing mobile phone.From the entry disturb
• The highlight of the hike was the sonorous cave, which produced a ringing echo from the hiker’s shouts.From the entry sonorous
• Tinnitus feels like a ringing between the ears.From the entry between the ears
• I hung a "no solicitors" sign by my door. One of these days, I hope they'll get the picture and quit ringing the bell.From the entry get the picture
• With the room so bare, Ivret’s voice sounded different, trebly echoes ringing off her sibilants.2024, Scott Alexander Howard, The Other Valley, Atlantic Books (2025), page 162. From the entry trebly
• “The only thing worse than premarital relations is a woman ringing the devil's doorbell.”2021, Carly Bloom, Must Love Cowboys. From the entry ring the devil's doorbell
• The ringing it left in his tympana was a great confusion.2020 [1992], Vernor Vinge, chapter 2, in A Fire Upon the Deep, 1st edition, New York: Tor Essentials, →ISBN, page 33. From the entry tympanum
• We are trapped!” When she finally stopped shrieking, for lack of breath, my ears were ringing.2017, Robin Hobb [pen name; Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden], Assassin’s Fate (book III of the The Fitz and the Fool Trilogy), Del Rey, →ISBN. From the entry breadmonger
• Would you want your daughter with her hands in her pants ringing her devils doorbell?2015 March 31, “Parents: Think of Your Children Before you Masturbate”, in Stop Masturbation Now, archived from the original on 10 Oct 2018. From the entry devils doorbell
• Historians today point out that each of these ringing assertions was, at best, truthy.2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 595. From the entry truthy
• The ringing tone ceased and I heard Annie's voice through a squizzle of interference.2011, Nicholas Royle, Regicide. From the entry squizzle
• Abruptly, Cleo flumpfed down onto one of the chairs, her ears ringing unpleasantly.2010, Sue Moorcroft, chapter 44, in All That Mullarkey, Camberley, Surrey: Choc Lit Limited, →ISBN, page 298. From the entry flumpf
• Your every day is spent ringing people to blag information out of them.2004, Anna Maxted, chapter 2, in Being Committed, New York, N.Y.: ReganBooks, →ISBN, page 13. From the entry blag
• He would hear the coach's admonition, "Always check your peripheral," after the ringing stopped in his ears.2003, Kim Louise, The Glory of Love. From the entry peripheral
• On the CBOT, ringing out was voluntary, while on the New York Cotton Exchange, it was compulsory.2003, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, volume 5, page 388. From the entry ring out
• The auctioneeress can’t hear it, but I can perceive the phone ringing in Rosa’s flat.1997, Tibor Fischer, The Collector Collector, Metropolitan Books, →ISBN, pages 3, 11, 115, 139, 198, 219. From the entry auctioneeress
• Edward was awakened that night by a loud clattering noise which left an after-sound of high ringing.1985, Iris Murdoch, The Good Apprentice, Penguin, published 2001, Part 2, p. 189. From the entry aftersound
• "Make way for an earthist," he called out in a polite but ringing tone.1967, Maggi Lidchi, Maggi Lidchi-Grassi, Earthman, page 10. From the entry earthist
• In television terms, a certain amount of smear, ringing, and anticipatory overshoot are indigenous to VSB transmission.1954, Radio & Television News: Radio-electronic engineering section. From the entry smear
• A loud and prolonged ringing of the door-bell proclaimed that he had found the right number.1930, Lennie Lower, Here's Luck, published 1980, page 85. From the entry not at home to
• We kept on ringing, tho, but, after a while, the steeplekeeper noticed the difference, too.1911 October 21, “The Boy who Broke the Liberty Bell”, in Literary Digest, volume 43, number 17 (whole number 1122), New York: Funk &…. From the entry steeplekeeper
• Then, amid shouts from the watching crowd, the torch-lit ceremony ends with gunfire ringing out beneath the clear night winter sky.2025 February 13, Stephen Castle, “Singing to Trees to Make Good Cider: An Ancient English Ritual Is Back”, in The New York Times, New…. From the entry torch-lit
• The ringing stopped but immediately started again.2014, Lutishia Lovely, The Perfect Deception, Kensington Books, →ISBN. From the entry unknown number
• I get up from the bed and walk to the wardrobe and all the while the phone keeps on ringing.2011 February, Jim Carrington, “Ash”, in In the Bag, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, pages 83–84. From the entry bring
• Maybe you don't remember ringing because you were scuttered.” “I wasn't scuttered.” “What did you have at the do?” “Two Baileys.”2010, Marian Keyes, The Brightest Star in the Sky, Penguin Publishing Group, page 197. From the entry scuttered
• It was like a great discordant symphony ringing out from the world; like a klaxoning of a million million cracked bells.2005 January, John Shirley, chapter 16, in Constantine: A Novelization [...] Based on Characters from the DC Comics/Vertigo Hellblazer…. From the entry klaxon
• This morning church bells were ringing too.2001, Michael Lynch, The Casinghead Company, Authors Choice Press, →ISBN, page 439. From the entry aclang
• The Bokmakierie has a wide range of ringing duets.1998, Andy Swash, http://www.birding.co.za/gallery/746.htm. From the entry bokmakierie
• Take Linda, a thirty-nine-year-old newscaster who relished her career but began to hear the alarm ringing on her biological clock.1994, Rugh Winter, Bonnie Eaker-Weil, Adultery, the Forgivable Sin. From the entry newscaster
• Dubin slept through the ringing alarm, aware of Kitty trying to rouse him and then letting him sleep.1979, Bernard Malamud, chapter 8, in Dubin’s Lives, New York, N.Y.: Farrar Straus Giroux, →ISBN, page 284. From the entry rouse
• He fired the Winchester twice again, into the distance, then lowered it, the ringing aftersound of the gunfire in his ears.1970, Elmore Leonard, chapter 7, in Valdez is Coming, Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, page 132. From the entry aftersound
• Relays and uniselectors of types installed in many telephone exchanges are used in the selective ringing dial system.1952 January, “Traffic Control at Burntisland, Scottish Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 53. From the entry uniselector
• Favaloro family has been suffering from an acute case of "telephonitis." The telephone began ringing at 5 a.m.1950, United States. Congress. House. Banking and Currency Committee, Extension of Rent Control, 1950: Hearings... (page 104); quoted from…. From the entry telephonitis
• Ringing a pig of ordinary size is easy, but special arrangements must be made for handling the big ones.1919, Popular Science, volume 95, number 4, page 31. From the entry ring
• Faintly above the ocean's roar Mermaids are ringing phantom bells, Fragments of buried ocean-lore Echo in hearts of singing-shells.1919, Clara Catherine Prince, American Poetry Magazine - Page 130. From the entry ocean-lore

Meaning of ringing

1. noun The sound of something that rings.
2. noun The quality of being resonant.
3. noun A technique used in the study of wild birds, by attaching a small, individually numbered, metal or plastic tag to their legs or wings.

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Questions about ringing in a sentence

How do you use ringing in a sentence?

Ringing is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “Racing to answer the ringing telephone, he left the toilet unflushed and did not wash his hands.”

What is a short sentence with ringing?

“The bells were ringing in the town.”

What does ringing mean?

Ringing means the sound of something that rings.