1A small circular band, typically of precious metal and often set with one or more gemstones, worn on a finger as an ornament or a token of marriage, engagement, or authority.

2A ring-shaped or circular object.

1. 2.1 A circular marking or pattern.
   black rings around her eyes

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Buoyant circles, rings and squiggles float like islands and lena, at times, an amusing semblance of comic-book drawing.
   • She turned her head ever so slightly to look at him, and he saw that her eyes were red, and there were black rings under her eyes.
   • She had black rings under her eyes, and she looked very pale.
   • Her tail has a black tip with two rings close to each other about 5 inches from the tip.
   • To reduce firewood consumption and fire rings, backpackers started carrying small portable stoves.
   • Of course, the coffee ring on the bottom is his de facto Seal of Office and a dead giveaway, but the grammar and lack of punctuation nail the lid firmly down.
   • The light was fading and the sky had rings of black, purple and navy making their way up to the small point of light in the center part of the sky.
   • The symbol of the ring or circle is used thematically for this coherence.
   • Around this center circle is a ring showing the position of the sun and the moon in the sky, as well as the phase and angle of the moon.
   • The IOC has ownership of the Olympic Games and the five rings as a trade mark, one of the most important trademarks in world history.
   • However, her eyes now had light black rings encircling them from lack of sleep, and he couldn't remember the last time he saw her really eat a decent meal.
   • The colours of the rings and the white background were those that appeared on all the national flags of the world at the time of its creation.
   • Her face was streaked with salt and drying tears and her lower lip looked red in a ring of teeth marks where she may have bitten it.
   • They were multicolored, a dark outer ring circling inner shades of ocean blue.
   • Several of these craters had rings of black and purple squiggles.
   • The disease manifests as yellow rings and blotches on leaves or fruit.
   • She had black rings around her eyes, and was yawning.
   • He evidently didn't have much sleep, dark rings had appeared round his eyes.
   • Sam's face was pasty, he had black rings around his eyes.
   • The bears are like moon bears but with astonishing golden coats, dark manes, and black, pandalike rings around the eyes.
2. 2.2 A group of people or things arranged in a circle.
   everyone sat in a ring, holding hands

   he pointed to the ring of trees

   Example sentencesExamples

   • A ring of admirers had already formed around their table, and Nyrouya thinned her lips disapprovingly at those bystanders.
   • In Samhain, banks of grass-covered earth in the shape of a sleeping woman wrap around a pool encircled in a ring of birch trees.
   • He had just stepped into the center of the ring of Falcons.
   • There would be a ring of dudes and one dude would be in the middle and then one by one, someone would tackle you and if you fell in the first minute, you had to run a mile as fast as you could.
   • In Long Beach Lot, the traffic missing from Blue Highway slumbers in the smoggy sunset, guarded by a ring of shadeless palms.
   • A second later, ten psymancers appeared in a ring around her.
   • Roustabouts shouting from the crow's nest float like Ascension angels on a ring of lights.
   • A ring of ships floated around it, waiting for docking clearance.
   • It was almost possible to see the location of the Palace, at the centre of concentric rings of islands.
   • The guests form a ring enclosing the bride, Ona, and men dance with her.
   • Within moments, Maru and Zach had found themselves in a ring of eleven men; each one looking as determined and concentrated as them.
   • Tom found himself surrounded by familiar faces that blurred into a ring of gleaming teeth and eyes.
   • Haiden's smile only brightened wider when the dark elves approached the top of a cliff to look down on a small caravan of dwarves, camped in a ring of trees in the valley below.
   • Suddenly they heard a voice outside the ring of zombies, yelling out the counter-curse in a loud, clear voice, over and over again.
   • When Conch finished and looked around once more, she found a ring of nasty, unshaven, dirty, men had emerged from the forest.
   • Downtown today is a strange and atmospheric four mile area cut off like a citadel from the rest of the region by a moat-like ring of freeways.
   • A ring of mountains covered with lush vegetation frames the city.
   • Miyoko found a small ring of bushes that kept out the wind.
   • Behind these rings of trees are yet more grassy fields, some wild and overgrown, others kept trim and tidy.
   • A ring of flames emerged from the center, and traveled outwards.

   Synonyms

   circle, group, knot, cluster, bunch, band, gathering, throng, crowd, flock, assemblage, mob, pack
3. 2.3 A circular or spiral course.
   they were dancing energetically in a ring

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Fire flared around in a ring, encircling the group, as the fire seemed to burn from Favriel's eyes.
   • Under a colorless sky stained with clouds, ten sylphs dance in a ring.
   • The women joined the men and the couples formed a circle for rueda (a Cuban relative of American square dance, done in a ring with a caller).
   • If Nafsani were able to move, she'd probably go in the direction of the ship, so…if I could find it, I could work out in a ring from there.
   • In scene 1, Mystic Circles of the Maidens, thirteen women tread in a tight ring at the centre.
   • Fire burst in a ring around me and above the bowl with the champagne.
   • ‘We dance round in a ring and suppose / But the Secret sits in the middle and knows,’ wrote the poet Robert Frost.
   • Blake remembers the Artichoke Inn, on the muddy lane through Lambeth Marsh, and the village maids and the lusty lads outside it, dancing in a ring.
   • Bent on their revels, other peasants dance stoutly in a ring to the music of a fiddle and a bagpipe: the women with dogged concentration, the men with carefree high-kicks.
   • It is hard to make the couplet ‘We dance round in a ring…’ into a fortune-cookie fortune or ‘Stir vigorously’ into a stirring poem.
4. 2.4Astronomy A thin band or disk of rock and ice particles around a planet.
   Example sentencesExamples

   • Besides the planet's multicolored rings and three moons there was little else above the green and blue world.
   • Dust sized particles dominated the debris ring, but good bolder sized bits rounded out the mix.
   • It was positioned almost outside of the ring, near the planet itself.
   • He was the first man to see craters on the moon, sun spots and the rings of Saturn.
   • Was the Federation correct in working with the Son'a to harvest the metaphasic radiation from the rings of the planet?
5. 2.5
   short for tree ring

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Brown remarks that the work's structure related to the concentric rings of a tree trunk.
   • Their ring patterns are compared with those of felled trees or with the wood from buildings whose ring patterns overlap the living tree.
   • Rays radiate from the centre of the trunk, and the heartwood - the inner rings - differs from the outer rings, which are called the sapwood.
   • I realized she was assessing my back muscles, judging their strength, reading them the way a botanist reads the rings of a tree's trunk.
   • In this way the city grew much like the annular rings of a tree, with successive perimeters being added as population growth dictated.
6. 2.6Archaeology usually as modifier A circular prehistoric earthwork, typically consisting of a bank and ditch.
   a ring ditch

   Example sentencesExamples

   • A causewayed ring ditch is a type of prehistoric monument.

3An enclosed space, surrounded by seating for spectators, in which a sport, performance, or show takes place.

1. 3.1 A roped enclosure for boxing or wrestling.
   Example sentencesExamples

   • George Foreman talks about his success in business, and the fact that he may go back into the boxing ring.
   • He noted how they positioned the camera outside the ring for round 1, but then went inside for Round 2.
   • The fighters circled the ring for a little while, but it didn't take them as long to get into some action.
   • These events are intercut and cross over each other until the moment that Ali first explodes into the boxing ring.
   • There are jerks on both side of the gender gap and Diana doesn't seem to fit in anywhere except in the boxing ring.
   • In exchange, Rocawear gets placement in the game, via ring signage and a tag on Afro Thunder's boxing trunks.
   • I felt as if we were in a boxing ring, facing off my opponent.
   • The last mode of play is knockout tournament wherein up to 16 players that you've unlocked in the main mode can fight for ring supremacy.
   • And, besides, Danny is more interested in going out dancing with new lover Bella than he is on being light on his feet in the boxing ring.
   • It's the tune to listen to before running into the boxing ring; far smarter and ultimately more cool than Simply the Best.
   • Slowly moving forward, Lee and Ty circle around the ring two times and approach each other in the middle again.
   • After a quick introduction the film jumps back twenty years to show us how these two ended up in the ring together.
   • The final bout in the boxing ring is genuinely exciting, although the evening seems to tail off, lacking a real ending.
   • Surrounding the ring are members of Flair's Four Horsemen group as well as Dusty Rhodes and several other babyfaces.
   • The sand was abruptly gone, and he faced the Hulk across a boxing ring, in the gym where a kid with a zip gun once tried to kill Jack McGee.
   • Against all odds, this blue-collar youth will make it in the boxing ring.
   • The ring physician examines Harry Campbell after he collapsed in his corner following a decision loss to Al Medrano.
   • The film is about a young girl who isn't the easiest going gal at high school and ends up finding a certain peace in the boxing ring.
   • Perhaps another tragedy but created not in the flashpoint of the boxing ring but over a phenomenal career was that of Muhammad Ali.
   • As Lola works to keep Manny out of the boxing ring and out of trouble, complications quickly arise.
2. 3.2the ring The profession, sport, or institution of boxing.
   Example sentencesExamples

   • Molina remains the last great ring star to come out of that one-time great fight town of San Jose, California.
   • The Prince was so sold on his own divinity that he used to make the longest, most seriously overblown entrances to boxing arenas in ring history.
   • Though both are former champions, their three-fight series was not for any ring title.

4A group of people drawn together due to a shared interest or goal, especially one involving illegal or unscrupulous activity.

5Chemistry

6Mathematics
A set of elements with two binary operations, addition and multiplication, the second being distributive over the first and associative.

1Surround (someone or something), especially for protection or containment.

1. 1.1 Form a line around the edge of (something circular)
   dark shadows ringed his eyes

   Example sentencesExamples

   • His lip was split, his nose bloody, and his eyes were both ringed by dark bruises.
   • Artic Pi, an oval form painted in shimmering silver and ringed by colored bands, suggests a mirror.
   • The clear, blue water sparkled like glass, and was ringed by fifty-foot oak trees.
   • A crown of striped horns ringed his great ugly head.
   • Circles ringed and shadowed them, but still they twinkled brightly.
   • She placed a fountain in a circle of pebbles ringed first by gravel, then by grasses, the whole surrounded by a circular pathway of railway sleepers set into natural stone.
   • Round eyes as dark as a faery's stared out from sunken and sallow sockets, ringed by dark purple bags.
   • The face changed now to Marta's face, still ringed by flame.
   • The man finally got what he wanted, and Trish stared at him with suddenly dark gray eyes ringed in yellow.
   • And then, around one of its many bends, the river rapidly emptied into a lake many leagues across and ringed by small hills.
   • Dark marks ringed the boy's bony wrist, livid against pale flesh.
   • Shadows ringed his eyes, and his eyelids were half opened, barely looking at his father, who was giving him an earful of harsh Russian words.
   • Nearby is another Lake Mashu which is ringed by 200 metre high walls.
   • Where his were ringed in dark green, these were colored deep blue, almost black.
   • Rather than a fireplace, it boasted a pit dug into the dirt floor, ringed by large rocks.
   • She had long thick brown hair, with hazel eyes ringed in black, fair skin and the cutest smile that you adored about her.
   • The painting depicts a calm, cerulean blue crater lake, ringed by craggy rock that flickers from lavender to cream, ocher to gray.
   • Despite the dearth of light, his pupils were the size of pin-pricks, and were ringed in jagged circlets of gold.
   • Her eyes were swollen, dark circles ringed them - she looked as if she hadn't slept in days, which she hadn't.
   • She pointed to a large grassy circle that was ringed by tall bushes.
2. 1.2British Draw a circle around (something), especially to focus attention on it.
   an area of Tribeca had been ringed in red

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Ring the correct answer below.

2Put a circular band through the nose of (a bull, pig, or other farm animal) to lead or otherwise control it.

1no object Make a clear resonant or vibrating sound.

1. 1.1with object Cause (a bell or alarm) to ring.
   he walked up to the door and rang the bell

   Example sentencesExamples

   • As if on que, Liz exited her room just as Jason rang the door bell.
   • With a kind of detachment, he walked, as casually as he could under the circumstances, towards the door and rung the bell.
   • Certainly, talking to Popin Pete doesn't ring any gangsta alarm bells.
   • Something else to ring a few alarm bells is the method of payment being requested.
   • Adrian found himself wanting to knock on the door loudly just moments after he rung the bell.
   • Taking a deep breath he opened the gate, walked up to the door; and rang the door bell.
   • Dave walked up to the front door and rang the bell.
   • Hailey hurriedly trudged up to her front door, rang the bell and waited for an answer.
   • He carried me right up to the door and rung the bell with difficulty.
   • An hour later a very attractive woman rang the door bell then let herself in.
   • Before Alex even rang the bell, Elle opened the door and ran out to give Alex a hug.
   • Seth sighed and walked over to open the door, as somebody rang the bell.
   • He rang the bell and a few seconds later the door slowly swung open.
   • He speeded to Winona's house and frantically knocked on the door and rang the bell.
   • Are you going to stand there all day or are you actually going to ring the door bell?
   • The red-haired lady stormed over to our front door and rang the bell.
   • Macduff shouts for alarm bells to be rung to wake the castle because the king has been killed.
   • I walked up the stairs to the double oak doors and rang the bell.
   • They walk to the front door and Mike rings the bell.
   • I closed my phone and tucking it in my pocket, I rang the door bell.

   Synonyms

   toll, sound, strike, peal
2. 1.2 (of a telephone) produce a series of resonant or vibrating sounds to signal an incoming call.
   the phone rang again as I replaced it

   Example sentencesExamples

   • As I lay there on my bed, thinking of the summer, the telephone rang.
   • Dragging herself from her car that evening and up the walk toward her apartment, she heard the sound of her telephone ringing.
   • Just as she was finishing her favorite prayers, the telephone rang.
   • Stephen was awakened by the telephone ringing next to his head.
   • When she was almost done, and only had to do the dishes, the telephone rang.
   • A few moments later, his telephone rang, and Sparks informed him that Dr. Boyer was on the secured line.
   • The telephone rang as Esther was thinking these things and Jay Cee asked her to come into the office.
   • In December 1994 Harvey Weinstein was woken at 2am by the telephone ringing beside his bed.
   • When the telephone rang, she jumped and looked at it, wondering who it might be.
   • When he finally reopened his eyes having completed the last one he realized that his telephone was ringing.
   • Just as Raine had shut her eyes, the telephone rang, startling her.
   • Trey was just about to order up some dinner when the telephone rang.
   • Although this scene, like the climax of Halloween, begins in a bedroom, once the telephone rings we enter Krueger's dream world.
   • The telephone rang just as Mark got home from his job at the pharmacy.
   • It was eight-thirty when the telephone rang, and I knew it was Chandler, wanting to know when I was picking him up.
   • The telephone would ring, but she did not have the strength to answer it.
   • Has he stopped because the telephone is ringing?
   • She smiled and kissed his cheek as the telephone rang again.
   • The telephone rang again, and this time, Tess didn't answer it, afraid of what the person would say this time.
   • The telephone began ringing and set my paint palette down to pick it up.
3. 1.3 Call for service or attention by sounding a bell.
   Ruth, will you ring for some tea?

   Example sentencesExamples

   • The house is clearly deserted when the ghost of Marley appears - otherwise Scrooge's first act would be to ring for his servant.
   • Penelope took her eyes away from Adam to ring for a maid, and to ask for tea when she arrived.
   • I debated whether to ring for a tisane but decided that I could bear another hour rather than disturb her hard earned rest.
   • A servant brought Clark meals, and he started to get used to ringing for things, being able to give his whole attention to what was in front of him.
   • The colonel nodded before abruptly turning from his nephew to ring for the nearest servant.
4. 1.4with object Sound (the hour, a peal, etc.) on a bell or bells.
   a bell ringing the hour

   Example sentencesExamples

   • The bell rings its monotonous peal of imprisonment, mocking us for being forced to follow its commands.
   • I thanked God profusely the moment the bell rang its sweet sound and officially ended the period.
   • The bell rings a harsh peal and the girls stop in their tracks.
   • Soon both of them were settled on the bed, munching contentedly as the clock rang the early hour.
   • The clock that hung on the wall rang every hour the sweet peal of chimes.
   • The bell rings its ugly sound and footsteps speed in the halls, the footsteps of tardy children running to class.
   • The bell rang its heavenly sound around the school and Connie raced out the door before a single person could stop her.

   Synonyms

   herald, signal, announce, proclaim, usher in, introduce, launch, celebrate, mark, signify, indicate, give notice of

2British with object Call by telephone.

3ring with/to(of a place) resound or reverberate with (a sound or sounds)

1. 3.1 (of a person's ears) be filled with a continuous buzzing or humming sound, especially as the aftereffect of a blow or loud noise.
   he yelled so loudly that my eardrums rang

   Example sentencesExamples

   • His ears were still ringing from the loud music in the pub.
   • Before she could blink, she was sprawled a few feet back, her ears still ringing from the force of the blow.
   • He panted hard, his ears ringing and heart pounding against his chest.
   • My ears were ringing from the loud noise suddenly halting.
   • My ears were still ringing from the sounds I had heard earlier on at the police station.
   • Their blades clashed and left her ears ringing at the sudden noise.
   • My ears were still ringing from the crashing guitar chords, and my head hurt.
   • The boom was loud enough to make my ears ring, even through the protective mufflers of the helmet.
   • I had been in the middle of a cheese omelet when her ears rung with the sound of ‘Hey Jude’ by the Beatles.
   • I woke again with a pounding headache and my ears were ringing.
   • That's when Johnny hears the ice shift; the cannonball sound makes his ears ring, and cracks run through the ice by his boots.
   • All of a sudden his ears started ringing, the thing was screaming, and loud.
   • After almost ten seconds of continuous fire everyone stopped, their ears ringing viciously.
   • I stopped halfway through my swing, my ears ringing from the loud sound.
   • Blues sagged to the ground with his ears ringing from the noise.
   • The crack of the whip was so loud; her ears were ringing, not to mention the whelp on her back.
   • The din that followed was loud enough to make Kratos' ears ring despite the plugs; he knew that he felt nothing compared to the two mercenaries' agony.
   • Their opponents were not as well off, their ears ringing and their eyes stinging from the charge.
   • But if your ears ring after loud noise or your hearing goes a little blurry, that means they are temporarily damaged.
   • I finally look up at his face, because his voice is so loud that I feel my ears are ringing.
2. 3.2ring with Be filled or permeated with (a particular quality)
   a clever retort which rang with contempt

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Her performance has so many qualities and rings with such truth.
   • Intermittent snippets of conversation suggesting rehearsal out-takes rang with a self-consciously clever sitcom snap, ultimately not terribly enlightening or deep.
   • The Agronomist is a clever title, one that rings with truth as well as ironic wordplay.
   • No matter how it paints it, the crimes in The Crime of Padre Amaro ring with a feeling of being excessive in the name of redress.
   • Despite the great quality of its prose, the story itself rings with superficiality, a certain lack of true profundity that can be covered but not overcome.
3. 3.3no object, with complement Convey a specified impression or quality.
   the author's honesty rings true

   Example sentencesExamples

   • But this of course only rings true if you use many of its features.
   • For those who focus on the mass storage space, the reasoning rings true as well.
   • Though the central action rings true, the surrounding ironies may pile up too heavily.
   • It has a story that still rings true today and sports a good handful of excellent performances.
   • For this is not simply a ‘message’ play, but a harrowing account of one family's trauma that rings horribly true.
   • ‘Christine has a remarkable instinct for that moment of performance that rings true,’ adds Campbell.
   • Money was money and the wife would probably do a better job of running away the next time; for the first time, Kratos felt that reasoning ring hollow.

1An act of causing a bell to sound, or the resonant sound caused by this.

1. 1.1 Each of a series of resonant or vibrating sounds signaling an incoming telephone call.
   Example sentencesExamples

   • Each time it rang I'd run to the phone and answer it between the first and second ring.
   • Buried under his covers he could only faintly hear the echoes of rings somewhere else.
   • Pushing one errant lock of hair away from her face, Haley strode over to her nightstand and picked up a cordless telephone on the fourth ring.
   • Her ears were straining to pick up the sound of the telephone ring.
   • After three rings, the beep came on and he heard a crackle, along with sounds of street traffic and pedestrians.
   • I dial your number into the cordless telephone, 3 rings later someone picks up the phone.
   • After several monotone rings, he found it and handed the phone to me.
   • Quinn walked down the hall to a small half circle table against the wall just as the first ring of the telephone sounded.
   • Reaching for a new pencil to replace the one I've just snapped in frustration, I hear the ring of my cell phone.
   • Which was about five minutes later, and I had nearly fallen asleep when the loud ring woke me up.
   • Her mother's voice boomed into my ear after the fourth ring.
   • His hands fumbled at first but he finally found it as the last ring echoed, and answered it.
   • A third ring forced the major to answer his incoming transmission.
   • After three rings there was a click and a couple of seconds later Laura's easily recognizable voice floated to my end of the line.
   • All of a sudden there was a loud ring and I jumped, glancing around the room I was in, thinking the cordless phone was not too far away.
   • Moments later, he picked up the telephone on the first ring.
   • He moved forward for a better look when a shrill ring echoed through the silence and made Diego jumped three feet in the air before realizing it was his mobile that was ringing.
   • A week later, the girl had gone out with him again and only days later, the telephone ring had woken Suzie up again.
   • I dialled the number and sat listening to the buzzes that represented rings.
   • And who wants to have it worsen at the sound of an annoying ring of a telephone?
2. 1.2informal in singular A telephone call.
   I'd better give her a ring tomorrow

   Example sentencesExamples

   • You know if you get anything you have to ask additionally you know just feel free to give me a ring.
   • But I guess we could give you a ring whenever we practiced for like, more than five minutes.
   • I don't know about Chris' schedule, but I'll call him now and give you a ring back.
   • No matter if you're here or China, just give me a ring and we can talk.
   • Could she really pick up the phone and give him a ring?
   • I feel like hearing her voice again so I take out my cell phone and give her a ring.

   Synonyms

   call, telephone call, phone call
3. 1.3in singular A loud clear sound or tone.
   the ring of sledgehammers on metal

   Example sentencesExamples

   • All she did was raise her blade to meet his, sending a loud ring through the room.
   • In the usual hustle and bustle of the special ed classroom, a shrill ring pierced the noise.
   • Hearing the dead bolt slide back, and the metallic ring of chains as it hit the ground gave Michelle a sense of foreboding.
   • There was a fizzle, and then a pop, and finally a clattering ring.
   • I heard the metallic ring of a horse's shoes striking the temple's stone courtyard.
   • A penetrating ring vibrated the air, alerting the Rukklenn in the city below of the danger.
   • Gary was out of sight, but the ring of a gunshot was not.
   • The ring of steel against steel could be heard a mile away.
   • The piercing ring seemed to get louder, like the ticking of a bomb about to explode.
   • This week it was High A, the vibrating shrilly ring that was sudden and shocking.
   • There was a loud ring, as a hammer on as anvil, and a shower of sparks.
   • Then it came, a big loud ring they thought would never come.
   • For example, sheathing and unsheathing swords gets a nice, reverberating ring as the blade enters or exits the scabbard.
   • The small ring echoed through the what appeared to be empty building.
   • I remembered the ring of the woodman's axe in the forests at home, and wished for a few long-sided Green Mountain boys.
   • Strangely, she thought she heard soft singing under the rhythmic ring of a hammer on metal…
   • Raiana quickly looked at her father, dropping her fork on her plate with a loud metallic ring as it hit the plate.
   • A moment or two later there is a loud musical ring that echoes through the entire house.
   • For a long time, I couldn't hear anything but the ring of a slot machine behind me.
   • The dull ring of blade on blade echoed in the bare hall.
4. 1.4in singular A particular quality conveyed by something heard or expressed.
   the song had a curious ring of nostalgia to it

   Example sentencesExamples

   • The title is a joke, but it has a ring of truth about it.
   • The album kicks off with the single, which is a wise choice, given that it sets things in motion with a welcome ring of familiarity.
   • During the preview screening I attended, there was some laughter, but it all had a hollow, forced ring to it.
   • He had seen, on the previous day, no trace of jealousy or resentment in his betrothed: he could still hear the candid ring of the girl's praise of Mrs. Vervain.
   • Your reasoning bears the ring of truth, yet I hear something other than your words.
   • It's not the most predictable ending, and it's certainly a frustrating one, but it has far too much of the ring of truth about it.
   • Like any good Wilde fans, they know that a pose can be genuine and a fantasy can have the ring of truth.
   • Certainly, the one active form of politics that Cooper champions has a distinctly pre-modern ring to it.
   • We see his fascination with fantasy and story-telling, lies which have the ring of truth; in short, the essence of theatre.
   • Though the plot has the unmistakable ring of familiarity, strong acting and directing carry the film through occasional missteps.
   • The alleged mission to Spain is treated both as fact and failure, like the Athenian one which Luke presents with such a ring of glorious authenticity.
   • But Mezrich's book has the ring of truth about it, not least because it stops short of incredible claims and leaves some loose ends untied.
   • We follow the fortunes of the Maclean family through Norman's eyes and Redford's voice and the story has a genuine ring of truth to it.
   • What is revealed has a ring of truth to it (otherwise it wouldn't be convincing or enjoyable) but that doesn't mean it is true.
   • I must say, it was the sharp ring of truth which angered me so.
   • She heard the ring of sincerity in King Halion's voice and it made her more frightened than before.
   • All that Walker said had the sharp ring of truth to it.
   • Rumors carried on the wind; the most prevalent, that the twine were one, carried a disturbing ring of possibility.
   • Mind you, I don't think MC Wayne Rooney has a particularly credible ring to it.
5. 1.5 A set of bells, especially church bells.
   Example sentencesExamples

   • Ring of bells" (or "peal of bells") is a term most often applied to a set of bells hung in the English style, typically for change ringing.