How to Use ringleader in a Sentence

ringleader

noun

• Snoop was the ringleader and all his homies came along for the ride.
  — Bob Guccione Jr., SPIN, 2 Aug. 2023
• Jimmy was the ringleader, and that was the point of the story.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 31 Jan. 2020
• She’s been a ringleader for the group trying to get Hobbs off the streets.
  — Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Sep. 2022
• The 20-year-old was considered the ringleader of the crime, the AP reports.
  — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 18 May 2024
• The ringleader, a man of Iraqi descent, was sentenced to 17 years.
  — Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2020
• The ringleader had been at the bank hours before the break-in posing as a customer.
  — Tracy Smith, CBS News, 11 Feb. 2023
• Young has been the ringleader of a young, up-and-coming team all season.
  — Matt Eppers, USA TODAY, 29 May 2021
• The last death is the best: At long last, the ringleader is stalked through the cornfields in arguably the film’s scariest scene.
  — Gem Seddon, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2021
• Bystanders point to Colleen Doyle and Maggie Biszko as two of the ringleaders.
  — al, 17 Nov. 2019
• Strong, whom a judge called the ringleader of the $1.5 million fraud scheme, also faces a wire fraud charge.
  — Alanna Durkin Richer, USA TODAY, 4 Dec. 2020
• Moyano-Morales is now the lead defendant in the case, and the alleged ringleader of the theft group.
  — Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 25 Oct. 2024
• The boys pinned her arms back and took her to their ringleader, who would decide what to do with her next.
  — New York Times, 12 Apr. 2022
• Liss, the ringleader of the MFMD, has a background in politics.
  — Taylor Lorenz, Washington Post, 13 May 2022
• That’s the person to appoint as ringleader to help streamline the process.
  — Pamela Wright, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Mar. 2021
• Around eight-thirty, Haskell, the ringleader, announced that the men had made their point.
  — Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2020
• The interns pleaded guilty and the ringleader was sentenced to more than eight years in prison.
  — Daniela Hernandez, WSJ, 21 June 2019
• Has put up crazy passing and rushing numbers, and is the ringleader of the NFC’s No. 1 team.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Nov. 2021
• The ringleaders of the crowd that wanted to evict them later became their best friends.
  — Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland.com, 2 Mar. 2018
• As mentioned above, ringleader Pratt has fled the country and may not be easy to track down.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 4 Jan. 2020
• Ask him two things — who was the ringleader and who else was involved in the kidnapping.
  — Jake Adelstein, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2023
• By now everyone knows the ringleader of The Eras Tour, but what about the cast and crew who shine alongside her?
  — Bryan West, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2024
• The problem is that Trump is not a ringleader, and his team is in desperate need of one.
  — Emily Jane Fox, The Hive, 16 Mar. 2017
• Starring Jennifer Lopez and Constance Wu, the ringleaders of the group, the movie packs a bold wallop.
  — Mark Olsenstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2019
• Late last year, a court ruled that Ms. Weidel could no longer refer to Mr. Mfouapon as the ringleader.
  — New York Times, 30 Apr. 2021
• And then there was Milken, their ringleader, who knew every bond in the market, who owned it, and at what price.
  — Bob Ivry, Town & Country, 3 June 2021
• Not a ringleader Krueger was promoted to a sergeant last year.
  — Gina Barton, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 June 2018
• The 17 ringleaders, Heroux said, were sent to other county jails around the state.
  — Adam Sennott, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Apr. 2023
• Woods has been perceived as the ringleader of the kidnapping scheme, said Banos, who took on his case in 2017.
  — Holly Yan, CNN, 2 Apr. 2022
• That is, until their ringleader is exposed so badly that the best thing to do is flee.
  — Amy Odell, Cosmopolitan, 19 July 2016
• Voss’s sentencing follows that of Gary Lamont, who in December 2023 received five years in jail, minus time served, for his role as ringleader of the operation.
  — News Desk, Artforum, 9 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Jan 2025