Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gong
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Each application requires the card issuer or lender to pull your credit report, which results in a hard inquiry on your report and dings your credit score a few points.—
Dan Avery,
CNBC,
11 Mar. 2025 -
Splitting carries with Kareem Hunt dings Pacheco’s fantasy value.—
Bill Reinhard,
New York Daily News,
23 Jan. 2025
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Sam Hauser had a chance to extend that lead moments later after Tatum stole a pass and sprung him for a fast break, but his wide-open dunk attack clanged off the rim.—
Zack Cox,
Boston Herald,
19 Jan. 2025
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In the 2020 postseason, Tucker hit the left upright from 41 yards away on the opening drive and clanged the right upright from 46 yards before making a 34-yarder right before halftime of Buffalo’s 17-3 victory.—
Tim Graham,
The Athletic,
18 Jan. 2025
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Phones have to be powered on for cellphone data to ping, but the phone's user does not have to be making calls or texts.—
Audrey Conklin,
Fox News,
13 Mar. 2025
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Meanwhile, Jones’ phone last pinged at 5:01 p.m. on Feb. 8, according to the report.—
Abigail Adams,
People.com,
4 Mar. 2025
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The video includes footage of a set of handcuffs and chains jingling as they are pulled from a basket containing other shackles and then laid out on the airport tarmac next to four other sets of restraints.—
Dan Mangan,
CNBC,
18 Feb. 2025
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The Decca Christmas Recordings jingles 19-15, surpassing its prior No. 17 high – and marking a new best rank for Lee over her 61-plus-year span of appearing on the chart.—
Jim Asker,
Billboard,
31 Dec. 2024
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Shaking the capsules produces audio signals that range from rattling stones, over tinkling coins to swooshing sand.—
Erico Guizzo,
IEEE Spectrum,
5 Oct. 2018
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Jeff Goldblum tinkled the ivories during a moving In Memoriam section at the BAFTA Film Awards.—
Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
16 Feb. 2025
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Berner and Kyle Cooke immediately clash over his de facto leadership of the house.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
14 Mar. 2025
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Tensions quickly run high when the families’ disparate personalities clash.—
Vikram Murthi,
IndieWire,
13 Mar. 2025
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As people clinked glasses of Moët & Chandon, Hadid and fellow model Josephine Skriver caught up near marble plinths while Naomi Campbell and the French Minister of Culture, Rachida Dati, shared airkisses tableside.—
Freya Drohan,
Vogue,
5 Mar. 2025
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The Maha season refused to mark its beginning, so the sounds of the irrigation tanks clinked and rattled through the city, promising water amid the drought.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
20 Feb. 2025
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Taking seedlings straight from indoors and plunking them into the garden is a shock.—
Andy Wilcox,
Better Homes & Gardens,
15 Feb. 2025
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In his final start of 2018, Sabathia plunked Tampa Bay’s Jesus Sucre in response to the Rays’ Andrew Kittredge throwing behind Austin Romine earlier in the game.—
Peter Sblendorio,
The Mercury News,
21 Jan. 2025
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“Gong.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gong. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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