Read full poem →Maud with her venturous climbings and tumbles and childish escapes,
Maud the delight of the village, the ringing joy of the Hall,
Maud with her sweet purse-mouth when my father dangled the grapes,
Dictionary Entry
To enclose or surround.
In a Sentence
“The inner city was ringed with dingy industrial areas.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. ringingvoice ringingringing bellsringing stillringing bell
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Antonyms
Poetry examples for “ringing”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →And your march is beaten into a song
By the softly ringing hoofs of a horse
And the panting breath of the dogs I love.
Read full poem →I tremble with a sudden fear to set
New music ringing through my fading youth.
Read full poem →start to ring. When
it stops ringing,
lift your receiver
Read full poem →Fling your hearts open wide,
Set your bells ringing:
Christ the Chief Reaper
Read full poem →There forever winds are bringing
Far-off chimes of church-bells ringing.
Read full poem →But scarcely had we reached the distant place,
When o’er the hills we heard a faint bell ringing;
A boy came running up with frightened face;
Read full poem →Of the rapture that impels
To the swinging and the ringing
Of the bells, bells, bells,
Read full poem →Of the rapture that impels
To the swinging and the ringing
Of the bells, bells, bells—
Read full poem →Whereof you drink, who drain and toss the cup
Empty and ringing by the finished feast;
Or have it shaken from your hand by sight