How to Use dead ringer in a Sentence

dead ringer

noun

• 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
• 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
• 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
• The rows of printers look like a dead ringer for IBM supercomputer rooms of the 1960s.
  — Diana Budds, Curbed, 6 May 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 19 Oct 2024