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
  • 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
  • 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
  • On a recent afternoon, Mr. Newman’s cricket-chirping ringtone came on in the car.
    Elissa Miolene, WSJ, 28 Aug. 2022
  • From there, follow the ringtone or vibration to its location.
    Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 11 July 2019
  • Albarn, working with Adele producer Greg Kurstin, fills the record with trilling steel drums, baleful mariachi horns, even a playful riff on the iPhone’s default ringtone.
    Clayton Purdom, Rolling Stone, 21 Feb. 2023

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