Sentence examples for meant to ring from inspiring English sources

If I don't turn up by 5.30am, the driver's meant to ring me.

"The Kids Are All Right" is a work of "liberal realism," a phrase meant to ring as hollow as that of Socialist Realism, and, for all its cleverness and charm, its fleshed-out characters are actually far too sculpted, defined all too tightly in terms of their functions in the story's lines of conflict to be exemplary of anything.

Many of the songs fired at the audience by the cast of 13 commendably energetic men (and one woman who wanders silently through the plot to a purpose only revealed at curtain) are meant to ring sour.

"The bells in these towers at the time were not meant to be rung in chords, but separately in arpeggios," explains Tolan.

I was meant to direct a Ring cycle at Bayreuth 15 years ago, and I worked there for two years.

The chairman was only meant to hold the ring until Cameron could emerge as the remain camp's main message carrier, and Rose was unwilling at first to take such a role.

Lieutenant-General Fry says that coalition forces will continue military operations "to separate the two sides of the sectarian conflict" but that such operations were meant to "hold the ring" until the politicians come up with a solution.

So they devised a middle way: the EU would offer to extend large parts of its single market to countries in eastern Europe, the Caucasus and the Mediterranean rim, without making any promises of membership.This European Neighbourhood Policy was meant to create "a ring of friends".

According to the Post, Kraft recalled this week that someone from the George W. Bush White House told him that "It would really be in the best interest of US-Soviet relations if you meant to give the ring as a present".

When we gave him the means to ring home, he was visibly moved.

And I appreciate the use of a hand a hand in marriage, with a simple wedding ring, meant to represent "till death do us part".