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Example sentences for "ringer"

Lexicographically close words:
ringbone; ringdove; ringe; ringed; ringen; ringers; ringes; ringgit; ringing; ringleader
  1. The bell-ringer had come down, and followed me curiously about among the graves.

  2. The bell-ringer could not tell; it was so old nobody knew anything about it.

  3. And the old bell-ringer did ring as he never rang before!

  4. The old bell-ringer placed a small boy at the hall door to await the signal of the doorkeeper.

  5. In Switzerland, I believe, a bell-ringer has for years been collecting material for a heraldic memorial.

  6. The bell-ringer lighted a little briar pipe, while Des Hermies and Durtal each rolled a cigarette.

  7. The bell-ringer raised his hands and sadly shook his head.

  8. The bell-ringer was a poor old man named Japhet, who was apt to be a little late.

  9. Presently the bell was pulled very gently, as if the ringer thought the house might be asleep and he did not want to awaken it.

  10. As a practical ringer and theorist combined, the art has lost one of its brightest ornaments.

  11. Died, aged 52, Samuel Thurston, for more than 30 years a ringer at St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich.

  12. If you'll climb up here you'll be free, and there may yet be time, Mr Ringer thinks, to reach the open country.

  13. Mr Ringer shouted out to us to escape; and he had reason to do so, for it seemed as if the wave would overwhelm the spot where we stood.

  14. Mr Ringer joining us, the two gentlemen recognised each other.

  15. Mr Ringer assisted Mrs Martin, I offered my aid to the young lady, and Larry took charge of the old gentleman, who required helping as much as his wife and daughter.

  16. Mr Ringer proposed that we should make our way to the barracks, but the ladies were unwilling to encounter the storm, and begged to remain where they were.

  17. I remember thinking the night oppressively hot, and was thankful that Mr Ringer was good enough to drive me from the barracks into the town.

  18. Of this salt Dr Ringer says--"it possesses the property of preventing and arresting suppuration, and stopping the formation of pus.

  19. Dr Ringer says that if oxygen be administered as a gaseous bath for an hour or two at a time, and the bath repeated six or eight times a day, it is of great service in senile gangrene.

  20. It seems that the Baron was a ringer in the set where Sadie and Pinckney had been doing the weekend house-party act.

  21. First she has a kind of surprised look, as if a ringer had been sprung on her; and then, as the high C artist begins to let herself go, she swings around and listens with both ears.

  22. Only this morning I seen Felix Geigermann in the subway and he says that Kleiman & Elenbogen is showing, at a dollar less on the garment, a ringer for our Style 4022 which we sold him, Mawruss.

  23. No living creature came near her save her keeper, who was the bell-ringer at the cathedral--if we except the vermin which held high carnival in the vault, and were there in extensive numbers.

  24. Paul could easily imagine that the escaping bell-ringer must have stumbled while making his way across to some open window, and upset a small table that he remembered stood close to the wall.

  25. Claude Frollo taught him to speak, to read, and to write, and had made him bell-ringer at Notre Dame.

  26. There was hardly a spectator in the crowd that had not some grudge, real or imagined, against the hunchback bell-ringer of Notre Dame.

  27. The bell-ringer held it over their heads, and in return many a piece of silver found its way into his pocket.

  28. The only thing that strikes me as queer is that the boat seems to be as near a ringer for the Tramp as anything I ever struck.

  29. Why, you know, that queer lot in the boat that was a ringer for the Tramp," was what George added, quickly.

  30. Say, three to one it's about that power boat that is a ringer for the Tramp?

  31. Ringer and Murrell have also experimented upon the action of gelsemine on the frog's heart.

  32. He had greatly altered of late; after finishing his studies he had become bell-ringer of one of the chief churches in the city, and he always appeared with a bruised nose, because the belfry staircase was in a ruinous condition.

  33. He was a fine fellow, Thomas," said the bell-ringer as the limping innkeeper set the third jug of beer before him.

  34. Ringer Dawe aloft could mark Faces at the window dark Crowding, crowding, row on row, Till all the church began to glow.

  35. Then in from one side comes this boat; no ordinary property piece faked up from something in stock; but a life sized model that's a dead ringer for the old Queen of the Seas, even to the stovepipe and the shirts hung from the forestay.

  36. And this manicure lady is a ringer for Mrs. Daggett, eh?

  37. Ringer and Murrill for scientific enthusiasm, it is impossible to acquit them of grave indiscretion.

  38. In publishing, and, indeed, in instituting their reckless experiments on the effect of nitrite of sodium on the human subject, Professor Ringer and Dr.

  39. Ringer and Murrill administered the drug in 10-grain doses--all but one avowed they would expect to drop down dead if they ever took another dose.

  40. Ringer was obliged to have it specially manufactured.

  41. The ringer now in charge of the bells is Mr. James Ayliffe, an accomplished musician.

  42. The ringer places his music before him, and strikes each note as it occurs by suddenly pushing down the proper lever.

  43. Overlooking the deliberate insult, in his desire to find out if the bell-ringer would not oblige, Harry lustily started an old high-school song.

  44. Ringing till the whole mountain resounded with the clangor of his wild tocsin, the bell-ringer was at work again!

  45. If they had found nothing by that time to throw any light on the bell-ringer or the instrument on which he performed, they decided that it would be waste of time to keep on.

  46. But if the bell-ringer had heard them and maliciously made up his mind not to grant their wish he could not have remained more silent.

  47. They stopped for lunch shortly after noon, without having made any progress in discovering anything about the mysterious bell or who its ringer could have been.

  48. Whoever the bell-ringer was he paid no attention to time or rhythm.

  49. Dr Sydney Ringer prescribes a 1/16th grain of sulphide of sodium, mixed with sugar of milk, three or four times a day on the tongue; but this should only be administered under medical supervision.


  50. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ringer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    alternate; alternative; analogy; backup; bluff; change; changeling; charlatan; comparison; copy; counterfeit; deputy; double; dummy; equal; equivalent; exchange; fake; fraud; ghost; humbug; image; imitation; impersonator; impostor; makeshift; malingerer; metaphor; mountebank; personnel; phony; picture; portrait; poser; pretender; proxy; quack; relief; replacement; representative; reserves; ringer; secondary; sham; sign; simulacrum; spare; spit; sub; substitute; substitution; surrogate; symbol; token; twin; understudy; vicar