How to Use ringer in a Sentence

ringer

noun

• 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 | [e-mail], 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
• It’s amplified by the addition of a ringer in the entertainment realm who has promised to build a new arena on its own dime.
  — Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Oct. 2021

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024