How to Use ding in a Sentence

ding

1 of 2 verb

• Howard was dinged up in the opener against the Falcons.
  — Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 18 Sep. 2017
• If not, will he be dinged for every pass that hits the ground?
  — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 14 Nov. 2019
• Arthur nodded toward the bell on the desk, a signal for the night man to ding the clerk.
  — Colson Whitehead, The New Yorker, 19 July 2021
• Once dialed, the police bell would ding and the siren would start to go off.
  — Lindsey M. Roberts, Houston Chronicle, 22 Apr. 2018
• And in New Zealand, street harassers can be dinged with a fine of up to $1,000.
  — Laignee Barron, Time, 18 Oct. 2017
• When the credit scoring change takes place First the good news: Your credit score isn't about to get dinged in the next few months.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 29 Jan. 2020
• Lawrence’s Burnett opens the passenger door and dings the car against a fire hydrant.
  — Johnny Diaz, sun-sentinel.com, 5 Sep. 2019
• And until Sunday, no Brewers' dinger has dinged the car.
  — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 June 2019
• Sure enough, Appleby gets dinged up and Banks has to play a series.
  — Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 13 Apr. 2018
• Having a new system is one less item a buyer can ding you for.
  — Marni Jameson, orlandosentinel.com, 19 Feb. 2021
• She has been dinged up a few times: a red chest from a maladjusted pack and a thorn in her foot pad.
  — Ned Rozell, Alaska Dispatch News, 22 July 2017
• Ward has taken Kelly on from the left, dinging her on past gun votes.
  — Melinda Henneberger, kansascity, 5 Mar. 2018
• But soft crude prices are dinging the oil giant's bottom line.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 1 Nov. 2019
• The better Zadina plays, the less passing on Hughes will ding the Wings.
  — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 8 Sep. 2020
• Adding another card or two may ding your scores in the short run but also could add points long term.
  — Liz Weston, oregonlive, 21 Mar. 2021
• Sebastián Blanco put a shot off the crossbar in the 48th minute and about a minute later Diego Valeri dinged one off the far post.
  — Jordan Culver, Pro Soccer USA, 9 Apr. 2018
• Less than nine percent of Congress is women of color, and Byrne dings four in a row?
  — al, 9 Jan. 2020
• But a glut of new restaurants and a change in consumer spending habits have dinged the industry.
  — Joe Gose, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2017
• The only thing that’s different is that the suitcase has been dinged up a little bit.
  — Kevin Nguyen, GQ, 14 June 2018
• The senior guard got dinged again Tuesday night, suffering cuts to both of her hands.
  — Matt Le Cren, chicagotribune.com, 23 Feb. 2018
• He only would have been deployed if one of the six defenseman got dinged.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 10 Nov. 2019
• The store may be concerned about shopping carts dinging cars, or any number of things.
  — Heloise, Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2019
• On the flip side, our model is dinging the Bulldogs because of their coaching switch.
  — SI.com, 2 Nov. 2017
• If a guy gets dinged or tired or whatever, Coach Bhonapha will rotate those guys.
  — Adam Jude, The Seattle Times, 24 Sep. 2018
• That win might have come at a cost as both of their top two running backs, Michael Warren and Gerrid Doaks, got dinged up.
  — Joseph Goodman, al, 5 Sep. 2019
• Testers dinged it for a general lack of energy and pop, though.
  — Justin Nyberg, Outside Online, 21 Mar. 2018
• If Moore prevails, Trump will be dinged for falling short in pulling his candidate across the line.
  — Alex Seitz-Wald, NBC News, 24 Sep. 2017
• Aside from a couple of ding-a-lings, my professors were superb.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 11 Apr. 2021
• The tense configuration with stern Saturn and the moon could ding your reputation.
  — The Astrotwins, ELLE, 30 Nov. 2022
• Systems that simply track whether workers are logged in and at their desks, and ding them for not being connected, can cause workers increased stress, according to a number of studies, says Dr. De Stefano.
  — Christopher Mims, WSJ, 17 Sep. 2022

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ding

2 of 2 noun

• This is the way the world ends — not with a bang but a ding.
  — Carina Chocano, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2017
• Walk around the car and look for rust, dents, and dings.
  — Indianapolis Star, 22 Mar. 2018
• No more late-night pings or dings that tempt you to check your phone.
  — Fox News, 29 Oct. 2023
• Frank had even sunk about $5,000 to get the car running again and fix a ding on the front end.
  — A.j. Baime, WSJ, 4 June 2022
• Or the lake, or the riverbank, or a ding-dang swimming hole.
  — Bon Appétit, 22 Aug. 2019
• The Pro Max was fine, while the mini suffered a small ding at the bottom of the phone.
  — Kaya Yurieff, CNN, 12 Nov. 2020
• The 21-inch Hardside comes with a shell that's lightweight but still holds up to dings and falls.
  — John Thompson, Men's Health, 24 May 2023
• So yeah, your body goes through a lot just to hear the ding of an incoming text.
  — Amber Brenza, SELF, 4 Feb. 2018
• And like the Spurcycle and the PDW, usually one ding was enough to clear a path.
  — Popular Science, 14 Sep. 2020
• Ding ding ding ding ding -- help our partners break their acts.
  — Dan Rys, Billboard, 19 June 2018
• Don't know how the wrap would hold up as far as getting dings or scratches on it.
  — Bob Weber, chicagotribune.com, 17 May 2017
• For the first, the front door of the museum has been rigged to set off a ding when opened, like that of a convenience store.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2021
• Two young men, slotted into the lightest weight class, started off the night at the ding of a bell.
  — Michael Colborne, The New Republic, 9 July 2019
• That ding! elicits a Pavlovian response to make a run for it.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 24 Sep. 2019
• The 6-foot senior guard delivered the pair of free shots for his team without as much as a ding on the rim.
  — Evan Dudley, al, 21 Feb. 2023
• Now get out the touch-up paint, stain markers and white out, and erase or color in dings, scuffs and scratches.
  — Marni Jameson, OrlandoSentinel.com, 7 Sep. 2017
• This can include scrapes, dings, bumps, or tears in the upholstery.
  — Jim Slavik, Car and Driver, 4 Apr. 2023
• Asking for and getting a payment break can avert a ding to your credit.
  — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2023
• Natural knots and nail marks on the wood flooring will hide any future dents and dings.
  — Emily Henderson, House Beautiful, 5 Aug. 2019
• Most dings will stay on your report for seven years from the date of delinquency.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Sep. 2019
• The timbre of taps, the din of dings, silverware clangs in kitchens, door knocks, knuckle cracks, head scratches.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2018
• Note that this excludes scratches, dents, dings, scuffs, stains and color changes.
  — Ashlea Halpern, wsj.com, 21 Oct. 2023
• That doesn't mean there aren't dings in this magical lamp of a musical.
  — Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 10 May 2018
• The Sox have taken more dings and dents than the fabled Green Monster this offseason.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Feb. 2020
• Afterward, the names of the dead were recited, each accompanied by the ding of a bell.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2023
• This gives consumers more time to pay off before getting a ding on their credit score.
  — Dallas News, 2 June 2022
• The pingpong balls have turned into ding-dong leftovers, with the No. 6 pick looming in the upcoming draft.
  — George Diaz, OrlandoSentinel.com, 21 May 2017
• Dents and dings are frequent bothers, these drivers say.
  — Christina Rogers, WSJ, 15 June 2018
• Silence the ding of your cell phone and turn on calming music or sounds of nature such as flowing streams or chirping birds.
  — Bethany Thayer, Detroit Free Press, 13 Jan. 2024
• The people charged with inspecting it pre-rental aren’t always sticklers for detail, and sometimes miss large scratches and dings.
  — Matt Meltzer, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024