Sentence examples for refrain ring from inspiring English sources

Knowles screams the refrain —"Ring the alarm, I've been doin[g] this too long / But I'll be damned if I see another chick on your arm"—"through a thick fog of distortion", as noted by Jody Rosen of Entertainment Weekly.

However, a glorious Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes pulls things back, its crystal clear guitar refrain ringing out as the crowd join in.

With crocodile tears, remorselessly, time and again after mass shootings the NRA's infamous (and demonstrably false) refrain rings out, "The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun".

I sat for a long time outside in the hallway, with the toneless rhythm of the driver's refrain ringing in my ears.

But hang on a moment... does this oft-heard refrain actually ring true?

Victor Irving, the Minskoff's house manager, said he asked the pedicab drivers who park outside the Minskoff to refrain from ringing their bike bells.

No ringing refrain emerged from a staccato seven-way conversation.

And in that group's "Train From Kansas City," the familiar protagonist (the girl), prop (the ring) and refrain ("baby, baby") are accompanied by... a choice.

John would take a healthy sip, let the drink cool his throat, and in his sonorous Wisconsin accent pronounce, "Fine work, Chaa-ng," the refrain that rang in our evenings.

"We are the youth of today," she staunchly declares in a refrain that rings false even though she wrote it at 15. She's much better when she avoids broad targets -- the tabloid stuff of "Poison Prince," about the rocker Pete Doherty, and "Footballer's Wife," which needs no explanation -- and addresses her own desires.

Rye Rye's frank, approachable nature is nicely balanced with Robyn's clean and girly refrain, which rings through as clearly as a bell.