Used in a Sentence

rings

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for rings.

Editorial note

Le Guin's writing about Lord of the Rings in The Wave in the Mind, one of her nonfiction collections.

Examples15
Definitions3
Parts of speech1

Quick take

A traditional Irish game of throwing rings onto hooks.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of rings gathered in one view.

noun

A traditional Irish game of throwing rings onto hooks.

noun

(gymnastics) A gymnastics apparatus and discipline consisting of two rings suspended from a bar.

noun

(post-mid century) Ellipsis of still rings.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for rings.

noun

A traditional Irish game of throwing rings onto hooks.

noun

(gymnastics) A gymnastics apparatus and discipline consisting of two rings suspended from a bar.

noun

(post-mid century) Ellipsis of still rings.

Example sentences

1

Le Guin's writing about Lord of the Rings in The Wave in the Mind, one of her nonfiction collections.

2

As someone mentioned it ended up on the CoCo III eventually, where it'd run rings around IBM PCs of the day.

3

They almost certainly have voting rings set up on every site that uses voting.

4

You have to have strength to weight ratio far greater than the average westerner (remember that statistically half the population is female) to make serious use of pull up bars and rings.

5

I will get more things of value done, but it's also my job to answer the phone when it rings.

6

I swam down after one of those colored diving rings, and the wind blew the raft over me while I was under.

7

This generally rings true for me, it is almost required for developers to be continuously learning and honing skills as new patterns, technologies, and tools emerge.

8

Lord of the Rings has true depth and longevity.

9

The phone can be a distraction, but so was my paperback copy of the Lord of the Rings when I was a kid.

10

I forced myself to read Lord of the Rings but it was difficult!

11

Sometimes it's for very menial and manual labor (tea picking, for example, next time someone enjoys some Assam tea) or are later sold into human trafficking rings.

12

The change in current in the outer rings will create a magnetic pulse inside the ring that is proportional to the change in current, per Ampere's law.

Quote examples

1

Your perspective rings to me like "There's plenty of technical literature in Mandarin; learning English just to...." Not wrong, per se.

2

People screwing up on verification can mess up the whole thing." Rings true as I think of mask costs and Intel's recall.

Proper noun examples

1

But comparisons to The Lord of the Rings, of all things, were tone deaf.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use rings in a sentence?

Le Guin's writing about Lord of the Rings in The Wave in the Mind, one of her nonfiction collections.

What does rings mean?

A traditional Irish game of throwing rings onto hooks.

What part of speech is rings?

rings is commonly used as noun.