Sentence examples for as a ringer from inspiring English sources

The former Cunningham dancer Melissa Toogood joins the troupe as a ringer.

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.

If this sturdy, delicious wine was planted as a ringer in a tasting of high-level Bordeaux reds, I could not separate it from the pack.

Phyllis Crimmins of Stamford, a teacher of autistic children, said she was in line as a ringer for her aunt's boyfriend.

I also recently recruited Abe as a ringer to the Times Magazine's recent walloping of New York magazine in our annual softball grudge match.

Ray Selvadurai, the director of coaching at Manhattan Soccer Club, where Harrison played during high school, recalled a time when the player, then 15, was called as a ringer to play in an U-20 match and scored four goals.

The Dead Ringer makes a loud crackling sound upon uncloaking, which will instantly reveal you as a Dead Ringer spy.

Though Leach's painting was loudly denounced as a "dead ringer" for Pynacker's, it isn't.

On the other hand, Tim Piper is thrilling as a dead ringer for John Lennon, but he has a lot fewer scenes.

(The only Eurovision winners who subsequently succeeded in America were ABBA, who won in 1974, and Celine Dion, who won in 1988 as a hired ringer for Switzerland).

Half the time, this looks like an unsuccessful episode of Friends, with Sally, defined by her alphabetised video index and her picky food habits, as a dead ringer for Monica.