How do you use the word "ring" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "ring": It's over between us. Give me back my ring! The church bell used to ring at three.

Ring Meaning

/ɹɪŋ/

Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA solid object in the shape of a circle.

nounA solid object in the shape of a circle., A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.

Sentence Examples

It's over between us. Give me back my ring!

The church bell used to ring at three.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

hoop echo halo

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

She wore a beautiful gold ____ on her finger as a symbol of marriage.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

She wore a diamond ____ on her left hand that had belonged to her grandmother.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English ryng, from Old English hring (“ring, circle”), from Proto-West Germanic *hring, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz (“ring”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)krengʰ-, extended nasalized form of *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). Doublet of rank and rink, as well as indirectly range. Cognates * West Frisian ring * Low German Ring * Dutch ring * German Ring * Swedish ring * Finnish rengas More distantly cognate with Proto-Slavic *krǫgъ (whence Bulgarian кръг (krǎg), Polish krąg, Russian круг (krug)).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"The dearest ring in Venice will I give you." — c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

"And hears the Muſes in a ring, / Ay round about Joves Altar ſing." — a. 1645, John Milton, “Il Penseroso”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC, page 39:

"The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common." — 1944, Miles Burton, chapter 5, in The Three Corpse Trick:

"Individuals looking to add their own homepage to a particular ring are, however, more or less at the mercy of the ringmaster, who often maintains a ring homepage listing its acceptance (or membership) policies and an index of its member sites." — 2002, Feroz Khan, Information Society in Global Age, page 100:

"Place me, O, place me in the dusty ring, / Where youthful charioteers contend for glory." — 1707, Edmund Smith, Phaedra and Hippolitus:

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