How to Use ding in a Sentence

ding

1 of 2 verb

• If not, will he be dinged for every pass that hits the ground?
  — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 14 Nov. 2019
• Once dialed, the police bell would ding and the siren would start to go off.
  — Lindsey M. Roberts, Houston Chronicle, 22 Apr. 2018
• Having a new system is one less item a buyer can ding you for.
  — Marni Jameson, orlandosentinel.com, 19 Feb. 2021
• But soft crude prices are dinging the oil giant's bottom line.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 1 Nov. 2019
• Still, even off-price retail could get badly dinged by this crisis.
  — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 20 Apr. 2020
• 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
• 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
• He only would have been deployed if one of the six defenseman got dinged.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 10 Nov. 2019
• Ward has taken Kelly on from the left, dinging her on past gun votes.
  — Melinda Henneberger, kansascity, 5 Mar. 2018
• Testers dinged it for a general lack of energy and pop, though.
  — Justin Nyberg, Outside Online, 21 Mar. 2018
• The store may be concerned about shopping carts dinging cars, or any number of things.
  — Heloise, Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2019
• Aside from a couple of ding-a-lings, my professors were superb.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 11 Apr. 2021
• The only thing that’s different is that the suitcase has been dinged up a little bit.
  — Kevin Nguyen, GQ, 14 June 2018
• Sure enough, Appleby gets dinged up and Banks has to play a series.
  — Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 13 Apr. 2018
• 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
• Yes, that titanium body won’t ding or scratch the way aluminum or plastic do.
  — David Pierce, WIRED, 18 Aug. 2017
• The senior guard got dinged again Tuesday night, suffering cuts to both of her hands.
  — Matt Le Cren, chicagotribune.com, 23 Feb. 2018
• If a guy gets dinged or tired or whatever, Coach Bhonapha will rotate those guys.
  — Adam Jude, The Seattle Times, 24 Sep. 2018
• Lawrence’s Burnett opens the passenger door and dings the car against a fire hydrant.
  — Johnny Diaz, sun-sentinel.com, 5 Sep. 2019
• There’s also more potential to scratch or ding your car with a trunk rack because your bikes sit closer to the car.
  — Kylee McGuigan, Popular Mechanics, 8 June 2022
• On the flip side, our model is dinging the Bulldogs because of their coaching switch.
  — SI.com, 2 Nov. 2017
• Less than nine percent of Congress is women of color, and Byrne dings four in a row?
  — al, 9 Jan. 2020
• Open the door to streets lined with trees and flecked with benches, where the bell of the light rail dings its warning as cyclists zip by on narrow roads.
  — Luis Melecio-Zambrano, Mercury News, 10 June 2026
• 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
• The author had some obvious fun dinging the current state of our union and our consumer branding.
  — Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Apr. 2018
• To make matters worse, many of those same employees found their accounts had been dinged twice, leaving their bank accounts in the red.
  — Barnini Chakraborty, Fox News, 13 Sep. 2019
• And in New Zealand, street harassers can be dinged with a fine of up to $1,000.
  — Laignee Barron, Time, 18 Oct. 2017
• Back inside, clusters of bodies lay crumpled along the ground as ammunition dinged the metal roof of the bar near the back of the venue.
  — Author: Wesley Lowery, Alaska Dispatch News, 3 Oct. 2017
• Not only that, but passers who would rather throw the ball away than get sacked or force a ball into coverage — or even passers who spike the ball to stop the clock — get dinged.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 Oct. 2019
• It's recently been updated to work with Alexa and have a larger range for dinging the Tile.
  — Courtney Campbell, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2019

ding

2 of 2 noun

• The ding on him, of course, is his lack of power.
  — Patrick Mooney, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026
• The lights coming on, the sound of ding ding, ding ding.
  — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2025
• Ding ding ding ding ding -- help our partners break their acts.
  — Dan Rys, Billboard, 19 June 2018
• So sometimes your car can have a few dings and a strange smell.
  — Matt Meltzer, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Jan. 2024
• What is 'ding, dong, ditching'?
  — Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2025
• Is there an unusual amount of door dings on both sides?
  — Jimmy Camp, Oc Register, 4 Aug. 2025
• What star doesn’t have some dings after 13 years?
  — Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 4 Feb. 2026
• Power down anything that pings, dings and rings.
  — Ginni Saraswati, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
• So yeah, your body goes through a lot just to hear the ding of an incoming text.
  — Amber Brenza, SELF, 4 Feb. 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
• His phone dings each time one is incoming—an alert to stay inside.
  — Clara Molot, Vanity Fair, 30 Apr. 2026
• Everyone is silent for a few moments as a bird chirps and a wind chime dings.
  — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 May 2026
• Worried about every little ding on your rental car?
  — Christopher Elliott, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2025
• This can include scrapes, dings, bumps, or tears in the upholstery.
  — Jim Slavik, Car and Driver, 4 Apr. 2023
• Note that this excludes scratches, dents, dings, scuffs, stains and color changes.
  — Ashlea Halpern, wsj.com, 21 Oct. 2023
• Asking for and getting a payment break can avert a ding to your credit.
  — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2023
• Payments that are not received on time result in major dings to your score.
  — Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 9 Apr. 2026
• Most dings will stay on your report for seven years from the date of delinquency.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Sep. 2019
• This gives consumers more time to pay off before getting a ding on their credit score.
  — Dallas News, 2 June 2022
• Natural knots and nail marks on the wood flooring will hide any future dents and dings.
  — Emily Henderson, House Beautiful, 5 Aug. 2019
• That doesn't mean there aren't dings in this magical lamp of a musical.
  — Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 10 May 2018
• 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
• 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
• But while nothing severe seems to be popping up, that group has been taking some dings of late as well.
  — Sahadev Sharma, New York Times, 1 May 2026
• Its tough shell shrugs off bumps and dings, while the textured finish helps disguise the scuffs of heavy travel.
  — Chaise Sanders, Travel + Leisure, 1 Dec. 2025
• The shell is built to withstand bumps and dings, while the textured finish helps hide wear and tear from travel.
  — Chaise Sanders, Travel + Leisure, 5 Nov. 2025
• 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
• His helmet was not matte black, after all, but scratched up and dulled by dings and scuffings.
  — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 18 May 2026
• 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
• 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