ring in
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.81 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To make a phone call to (this place).
Example Sentences
- "John has just rung in sick. He won't be back till Monday, he says."
- "We will ring in the New Year at a ski resort."
- "T'other day as Apollo sat pitching his darts / Through the clouds of November, by fits and by starts, / He began to consider how long it had been, / Since the bards of Old England had all been rung in."
- "Attend now, my braves. I have mustered ye all round this capstan; and ye mates, flank me with your lances; and ye harpooneers, stand there with your irons; and ye, stout mariners, ring me in, that I may in some sort revive a noble custom of my fisherman fathers before me."
- "All the world was only the two Copleigh girls, Saumarez and I, ringed in with the lightning and the dark; and the guidance of this misguided world seemed to lie in my hands."
- "He was ringed in on all sides by a solid circle of gleaming red sparks that shone from the grass. Held back by their fear, the graveyard rats surrounded him, squealing their hate."