ring in

Definitions

1. To make a phone call to (this place).
2. To encircle, to surround in a ring, engirdle.
   transitive
3. To celebrate by ringing of bells or as if by ringing of the bells.
   transitive

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Svenskaringa in

Examples

“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⟳.”

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