Sentence examples for sinister ring from inspiring English sources
None of the prisons in the state have the sinister ring of Alcatraz.
If you're a non-techie, it will sound either like a meaningless piece of jargon or it'll have a vaguely sinister ring to it.
There's a sinister ring to that opening — what grim information can Sebastian be holding in that dark place in his mind?
Even the Cadillacs' sweet-sounding doo-wop in Peek-a-Boo has a sinister ring to it: "When ya do the thing you shouldn't do/Peek-a-Boo a-watching you".
Robbed of even the tiniest hint of the inquisitive, it acquires a tone both stern and sinister, ringing of oblivion.
Sinister ringing bells fade in and out, plunging the ominous techno trak into deeper levels of dread.
"Happy Birthday, Turk!," which involves the murder of a Turkish immigrant and a sinister drug ring, became an immediate best seller.
Instead of simply leaving that ambiguous and faintly sinister note ringing in the air between us, I decided to tell her that her son and I knew each other from the child minder's; but, flustered, I somehow managed to introduce myself to her as "Mike's mum".
This sinister line rings through Suspiria, increasingly true with every act.
By Hendrik Hertzberg The New Yorker, October 2, 2000 P. 53 Signed comment about the case of Wen Ho Lee... Wen Ho Lee is the formerly obscure Taiwanese-American scientist who, beginning a year and a half ago, had been portrayed as the mastermind behind the most sinister atomic spy ring since the Cold War days of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
Where else but darkest newly capitalistic eastern Europe, trafficking in every base human impulse, would host a sinister white-collar murder ring?
