How to Use ringing in a Sentence

ringing

adjective
  • If that isn’t a ringing endorsement!
    The Bon Appétit Staff, Bon Appetit Magazine, 2 Jan. 2026
  • Hana liked it enough to take some home, which in the Test Kitchen is a ringing endorsement!
    Shilpa Uskokovic, Bon Appetit Magazine, 1 Apr. 2026
  • There is performance and rage, humor and babies, bell ringing and escape rooms.
    Erica Firpo, Forbes.com, 14 May 2026
  • At the moment, Breslow has its ringing endorsement.
    Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2026
  • But just hours ahead of his season debut, one of Rodgers' new teammates shared a ringing endorsement for his star quarterback.
    Reice Shipley, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Two years later, the print received another ringing endorsement.
    Natalie Hammond, CNN Money, 25 Aug. 2025
  • At noon each day, a cannon placed on the Janiculum Hill fires a blank shot in unison with the ringing bells of Rome’s churches.
    Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 8 Feb. 2026
  • The comments on Roman were not exactly ringing endorsements.
    Daniel Popper, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Not exactly a ringing endorsement.
    Daniel Popper, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Neither response was exactly a ringing endorsement.
    Elliott Teaford, Oc Register, 13 Jan. 2026
  • The archipelago is newer than other island chains in French Polynesia and hasn't had time to grow the ringing coral reefs that create quiet lagoons.
    Peter Heller, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Eric DeCosta, the Ravens general manager, said a couple of days ago that his phone was still ringing because teams are still willing to trade with him.
    Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 14 Mar. 2026
  • On the other, giving up 24 goals in a five-game loss to a team that immediately forgets how to score and gets swept isn’t exactly a ringing endorsement of a team being close to contending.
    Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 1 June 2026
  • James Outman hit a ringing double and Minnesota star Byron Buxton followed with an RBI triple.
    Kansas City Star, 7 Sep. 2025
  • But the first five innings Tuesday were a ringing endorsement for the Dodgers’ cautious approach to Ohtani’s rehab and return from a second Tommy John surgery.
    Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 17 Sep. 2025
  • But Malema was convicted of hate speech for making threats last year, and his party won less than ten per cent of the national vote in the most recent South African election—hardly a ringing endorsement of his ideas.
    Boyce Upholt, New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Bravo to Netflix for their ringing endorsement of biodiversity with its commitment to purchase Funga’s carbon credits.
    Erik Kobayashi-Solomon, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The tactics of activists have largely included mass protests, most recently those of No Kings Day, as well as smaller, simpler ones, say, chanting and ringing bells in front of Tesla showrooms.
    Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The lack of other people, coupled with the near total absence of human presence—no ringing cell phones, no signage, no light pollution from nearby lodges, not even the trace of a campfire or the faded imprint of tire tracks from an earlier trip—meant there was a deep sense of quietude.
    Rebecca Misner, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Mar. 2025
  • However, Toronto Blue Jays starting pitcher and future Hall of Famer Max Scherzer is here to provide a ringing endorsement.
    Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The murder mystery has so far flown under the radar, despite having Emmy winner Tatiana Maslany as the lead, but just received a ringing endorsement from author extraordinaire Stephen King.
    Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 25 June 2026
  • About a dozen other Republican backers of the Iran war either declined or did not respond to requests for interviews or comment—hardly a ringing endorsement of their president’s negotiating prowess.
    Vivian Salama, The Atlantic, 15 June 2026
  • That isn't exactly a ringing endorsement of the second-year signal-caller, and writers at The Athletic also don't seem to have much of a belief in Williams heading into the showdown at Lambeau Field.
    Matthew Schmidt, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Dec. 2025
  • While most graduations take place in arenas in May, the ringing applause heard throughout the center yesterday marked the end of the high school educational journeys for over 50 students, many of whom have been involved with gun violence and used school to change their life direction.
    Chicago Tribune, 22 Aug. 2025

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