How to Use ringer in a Sentence

ringer

noun
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  • Bridges has been through the ringer the last two years.
    — Jason Stahl, SPIN, 23 June 2022
  • About all the ways this show has been put through the ringer.
    — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Aug. 2023
  • The mute switch is the fastest way to make sure your ringer will not sound.
    — Jim Rossman, Dallas News, 20 Oct. 2022
  • A lot of young pitching going through the ringer for the first time.
    — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2023
  • The fourth senior John Starzyk walked out of that gym with all the root beer, that ringer.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 24 Feb. 2023
  • That was the view of Anatolii, a worker and chief ringer of the 15-ton bell at the cathedral.
    — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 July 2023
  • This will mute or unmute your phone’s ringer and alert tones.
    — Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 23 Oct. 2023
  • The national police had a track and field club, and Ser-Od was a bit of a ringer.
    — Scott Cacciola, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2023
  • Overall, fans of the seven FBS programs in the state the past couple of years have been through the ringer.
    — Tom Layberger, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2023
  • Bentyne has been through the ringer and back during her decades with the Transfer.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 27 Jan. 2022
  • All the best fishing coolers in my life have been through the ringer and are still going strong.
    — Travis Smola, Field & Stream, 3 May 2023
  • All of the actors were similarly put through the ringer.
    — Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Sasha Danyliuk isn't a ringer brought to Phoenix Christian to lead the girls' basketball team to a state title.
    — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 5 Jan. 2023
  • In some of those places, the people who weren’t put through the work-requirements ringer were in fact more likely to have work.
    — Bryce Covert, The New Republic, 20 Aug. 2021
  • The nylon frame and lenses were designed to be put through the ringer and will last for decades with proper care and storage.
    — Kaitlyn McInnis, Travel + Leisure, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Some of those who have been through the ringer in Brookside believe they have been given a second chance, and vow to use it well.
    — John Archibald | Jarchibald@al.com, al, 27 Dec. 2022
  • Starting pitcher Bobby Miller was put through the ringer first.
    — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2023
  • These are just two people who have gone through the ringer, and faced life and made decisions along the way, and are now at an impasse.
    — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Apr. 2022
  • Batavia’s Drew Gerke has already been through the ringer with a broken finger this season.
    — Paul Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Sweet Trekkie Ben has been through the ringer with Marco as the back burner option in a painful love triangle.
    — Michel Ghanem, ELLE, 23 June 2023
  • Paye, the first pass rusher the franchise had taken in the first round since Bjorn Werner in 2012, had been through a ringer of a rookie season.
    — Joel A. Erickson, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Apr. 2022
  • This game has the chance to be a second straight confidence booster for a defense that has gone through the ringer this season.
    — Adam Burke, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2022
  • All the athletes, parents and alumni were put through the ringer in the 10-month battle, but field hockey arguably suffered the most.
    — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Nov. 2021
  • There’s a young Kevin Bacon wearing a ringer tee and short denim cutoffs.
    — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Saul has brought along a ringer: a teenage Chinese American point guard, Manford, who led his team to the city finals.
    — oregonlive, 26 Apr. 2021
  • The ringer, of course, is the last dragon of the title, Sisu, who becomes Raya’s confidant, sounding board and shape-shifting life coach.
    — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 5 Mar. 2021
  • For six years, this case, Juliana v. United States, has been run through the ringer of the American legal system.
    — Eleanor Cummins, Wired, 22 Sep. 2021
  • To say Twitch has been through the ringer recently would be an understatement.
    — Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2021
  • The Action Button is about the same size as the existing button, and users still hold it down to switch between muting and turning on the ringer.
    — Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN, 19 Sep. 2023
  • This can happen, especially with older folks who forget to turn their ringers off.
    — Gloria Calderón Kellett, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2023

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