How to Use ringtone in a Sentence

ringtone

noun

• Through the day, the duck ringtone on his cellphone goes off.
  — Dawn Lim, WSJ, 6 Jan. 2022
• The first item was a telephone in the shape of a fish that had a gurgling sound for a ringtone.
  — Sam Whiting, SFChronicle.com, 17 May 2020
• These files can be used for alarms and alerts, as well as ringtones.
  — David Nield, WIRED, 5 Mar. 2023
• The cry was even featured on The Simpsons and one web site sells it as a ringtone.
  — Amanda Christovich, USA TODAY, 13 July 2018
• In the video, the real Apple ringtone is played right after the bird sings.
  — Saryn Chorney, PEOPLE.com, 19 Dec. 2017
• Go ahead and make your ringtone the audio of Sam Heughan growling that last bit.
  — Joanna Robinson, HWD, 11 Apr. 2018
• No one wants to hear a cellphone ringtone in the middle of a Chopin prelude.
  — Andrea Ahles judy Wiley, star-telegram.com, 8 June 2017
• Even his ever-present ringtone, a synth-heavy Prince-style bop that also serves as the show's theme song, recalls the Decade of Greed.
  — Robyn Bahr, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Jan. 2020
• The thunderclap sound the 720s emits from downshifting is quite thrilling and is now my ringtone.
  — Kayvan Nikjou, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2021
• Farmer Hoggett, has his iconic final line from the beloved 1995 movie about a piglet who’s just trying to find his place in the world set as his ringtone.
  — Sarah Weldon, PEOPLE.com, 24 Aug. 2017
• Someone turning on a radio — or wait, was that just a cell phone ringtone?
  — New York Times, 20 Nov. 2020
• Speaking of rain, AirTag’s IP67 water and dust resistance comes at a cost as the ringtone has to fight through the white plastic body.
  — Hunter Fenollol, Popular Mechanics, 25 Aug. 2021
• The tracks on that record, all under three minutes long, were intended to be ringtones.
  — Alec M. Priester, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2016
• No, said a panel of clerics in India in 2009, because the ringtone may be cut off before the verse is over, which would be a sin.
  — Kaveh Waddell, The Atlantic, 31 Aug. 2017
• Reddit’s first day of trading Thursday was a soft ringtone tickling the ear of a sleepy IPO market.
  — Laura Bratton, Quartz, 21 Mar. 2024
• The only downside of the reading was a chirping cricket ringtone that went off twice on a patron’s phone.
  — Dallas News, 9 Apr. 2022
• His cellphone’s ringtone was the theme from Indiana Jones.
  — Ariel Sabar, The Atlantic, 13 May 2020
• The video post showed Smith sleeping on a boat at sea surrounded by a variety of pinging sounds and ringtones.
  — Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 16 Oct. 2023
• Juan Carlos went viral in what now seems like the quaintest of fashions: as a custom ringtone for mobile phones.
  — Saskia Solomon, The Economist, 17 Feb. 2021
• McBling is a grainy song ringtone blaring out of your Motorola's speaker.
  — Abrigail Williams, Vogue, 15 Aug. 2022
• The Verge notes that the upload was probably a scam because the ringtones — which have since been removed — didn’t list any of West’s record labels as the copyright holder.
  — Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2019
• Campers quickly adjust to the moratorium on pings and ringtones and the constant contact with parents and friends.
  — Hattie Bernstein, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Apr. 2018
• By 6:30, Graves was walking out of the arena, laptop in hand, answering his phone's Bob Marley ringtone.
  — Andrew Greif, OregonLive.com, 15 Mar. 2018
• Asked later what the United States' official ringtone is, Kirby said there wasn't one.
  — NBC News, 11 Mar. 2022
• Have musical cell phone ringtones been silenced for good?
  — Oona Goodin-Smith, Philly.com, 25 May 2018
• Ask everyone to keep the occasional call brief, to change their ringtones to silent and to leave their cellphones in their purses or desk drawers.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 9 July 2018
• Starting Wednesday, Nest Hello users can turn on winter ringtones that play each time the video doorbell's button is pressed.
  — Jason Cipriani, CNN Underscored, 27 Nov. 2019
• In one of the most exposed and touching moments of the slow movement in the New World, a ringtone briefly went off, and a notification pinged after the final chord of the symphony.
  — Dallas News, 15 Apr. 2022
• To help pay for the $13 million exemption, the measure levied sales taxes on e-books, digital music and ringtones.
  — Andrew Demillo, The Seattle Times, 22 Apr. 2018
• The video post sees Smith sleeping on a boat, ignoring a flurry of notification sounds and ringtones.
  — Shania Russell, EW.com, 16 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024