How to Use dead ringer in a Sentence
dead ringer
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And his hair and piercing blue eyes are a dead ringer for William's in the late '90s.
—Staff Author Published, Peoplemag, 12 Aug. 2022
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And doesn’t that Inuit hunter from a 1920s newsreel look like a dead ringer for Fred Armisen?
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2022
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The singer is a dead ringer for Squid Game character Kang Sae-byeok in a shag wig and 067 tracksuit.
—Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 30 Oct. 2021
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The rows of printers look like a dead ringer for IBM supercomputer rooms of the 1960s.
—Diana Budds, Curbed, 6 May 2022
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Sure, the front half is a dead ringer for the bunny, and powertrains are swapped back and forth, but no kidding, folks, this is a Volkswagen truck.
—Don Sherman, Car and Driver, 25 Feb. 2023
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Nerano was mixed with seared rounds of zucchini, delicate squash blossoms and a creamy saffron sauce, a dead ringer for uni cream.
—Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Sep. 2021
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Nickelodeon green goo splashed onto the floor is a dead ringer for blood, vomit, and spilled guts, while using a plunger to slurp through that same mess conjures up any number of wet, squelching scenarios.
—WIRED, 7 Feb. 2023
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Hadley Robinson, a dead ringer for a young Kirsten Dunst, plays a fed-up junior who secretly starts a feminist zine that inspires her fellow students.
—Neal Justin, Chris Hewitt, Star Tribune, 11 Mar. 2021
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Burger King saw success with its Impossible Whopper, a dead ringer for the real thing, only a little squishier.
—Laura Reiley, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Nov. 2022
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The measles vaccine, for example, contains a neutered virus—one that won’t cause true measles, but is otherwise a dead ringer that bops through the body, infiltrating cells and copying itself in much the same way its scarier cousin would.
—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 1 Dec. 2021
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The fact that Jo Yeong-wook’s score is a dead ringer for Bernard Hermann’s similarly haunting music for that classic only underlines the connection.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2022
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