Example sentences for: ringing

How can you use “ringing” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Pepsi-Cola's famous Uh-huh! commercials have made bare assent into a ringing affirmative, though no one has yet done a similar campaign on uh-uh .

  • Exposure to short periods of very loud noise can cause tinnitus—a persistent ringing or buzzing in the ears that cannot be blocked out.

  • The phone ringing in my cabin awakens me; it's the conning officer on the bridge making a report of a vessel that we have in sight approximately 12 miles away.

  • He once called the president a louse, and the phone didn't stop ringing for a week.

  • In its front-page editorial, the Sun , which used to have a homophobic reputation, claimed that the Brown affair had "set alarm bells ringing"--"[n]ot because people despise gays, or fear them, or wish to pillory them," but because "the public has a right to know how many homosexuals occupy positions of high power."


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