Sentence examples for a ringer for from inspiring English sources

Their Black Watch pattern is a ringer for the plaid in his studio.

Jesse Williams from ABC's "Grey's Anatomy" portrays Prudhomme and is a ringer for the drag racer.

"It's this," Ms. Gummer said, fingers sliding down the Cleopatra nose, a ringer for Ms. Streep's.

(With her long gray mane Ms. Hunter is a ringer for recent photos of Ms. Campion).

With his arched eyebrows and receding hairline, Sfar's pilot is a ringer for Saint-Exupéry himself.

Wanda Lovell is in many ways a ringer for Mrs. Spears, who is fond of dispensing homilies.

Lighten Zahedi's complexion, stuff him in a fright wig, and this fellow would be a ringer for Harpo Marx.

He got into umpiring in 1981 while he was playing as a ringer for the Show Business League and the regular umpires went on strike.

"Get me to the closest place I can speak to the nation," Mr. Bottoms, the actor and a ringer for the president, barks at one point.

There are photos of Ms. Kressyn, in her youth a ringer for Loretta Young, throughout the Washington Square apartment she once shared with her husband.

Mr. Achatz himself is a ringer for a red-haired Christian Bale.