Sentence examples for a ringer of from inspiring English sources

A ringer of a summer song, complete with diva-vocal choruses, that's what.

My stomach was fine, my feet were okay, my body was still functioning - even though I had just put it through a ringer of abuse.

The three Josies get more or less equal time to interact with the play's other characters (although Kate Arrington, a ringer for Katherine Heigl of "Grey's Anatomy," seems to get much of the weightier material).

He appears sunken throughout, understandably depressed by his long, ropy mane of black hair; from a certain angle he's a ringer for Chrissie Hynde, of the Pretenders.

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

And I always thought Patrick Duffy was a bit of a ringer for Clinton, though he may not quite have the gravitas..

He was found guilty of using a ringer to take a test.

So what's an actor to do -- come up with a dead ringer of an impression, or simply invoke the person with a few broad brush strokes -- a speech tick here, a familiar gesture there -- and then try to reinvent the character for oneself?

Get a ringer 70 percent of the time, and you are in a shrinking class of world-class pitchers.

For the tournament, which attracted nearly 1,300 participants, Francis had a ringer percentage of 87.47.

All that remains is to stick a green sprig into the top and we have a near dead ringer of a mandarin orange.