How to Use brass ring in a Sentence

brass ring

noun
  • But in your play — spoiler alert — one of the two boys doesn’t score the brass ring.
    — Ginia Bellafante, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2018
  • The brass rang the call for freedom in way to fill the streets with triumph.
    — Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2019
  • What happens to politicians who reach for the big brass ring and end up flailing?
    — Adrian Walker, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2019
  • Matching straps cinched across her chest with brass rings, adding some structure to the airy design.
    — Lara Walsh, InStyle, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Attach some greenery to a brass ring and finish it off with a little bell or two.
    — Jessica Cherner, House Beautiful, 14 Dec. 2022
  • The city gave its workers a choice of interesting jobs and a chance at the brass ring.
    — New York Times, 14 Jan. 2021
  • This Nappa leather bag, which is available in black and creme, has a drawstring pouch and a brass ring.
    — Marques Harper Deputy Features Editor, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2021
  • For the business lobby, killing Chevron deference is the big brass ring.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 22 Mar. 2022
  • Show young musicians that fame and fortune isn’t always the proverbial brass ring.
    — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 3 Jan. 2022
  • Once upon a time, getting a job in a TV writers’ room was a brass ring of its own.
    — Peter Rubin, Longreads, 2 May 2023
  • For decades, the brass ring for showrunners was seeing their series hit the 100-episode mark.
    — Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Wonder what the next brass ring is for Portland restaurateurs?
    — Michael Russell, OregonLive.com, 5 Mar. 2018
  • Each revolution of the carousel offers riders a fleeting chance to grab a brass ring.
    — Michael Tortorello, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2017
  • One step away from the brass ring that had been his dream for nearly 20 years, he had been passed over for the chairmanship.
    — New York Times, 21 Apr. 2021
  • For years, the enterprise market has been the fabled brass ring for telecom service providers.
    — Shekar Ayyar, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
  • For standup comedians, the Netflix special has become the brass ring.
    — Sheila Marikar, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2019
  • Grab the brass ring and you will be poised and powered up to attain your most important ambitions in September.
    — oregonlive, 13 Feb. 2020
  • This was also an era in which brass rings showed up at Native American sites up and down the East Coast.
    — Andrew Lawler, Smithsonian, 7 Apr. 2017
  • The basket-like weave of this particular bag tapers through a single brass ring into a thick, rope-like handle meant to be slung over the shoulder.
    — Nathan Heller, Vogue, 23 Aug. 2022
  • Many on Wall Street presumed that Cohn that thrown aside his dignity, career, and good name for the chance to grab at the brass ring.
    — Bess Levin, The Hive, 29 Sep. 2017
  • And if a few extra days of rest now mean that Chapman will be hearty and hale in October, that silver lining may look more like a brass ring.
    — New York Times, 13 July 2018
  • Even if that expected electoral redemption does not come, Mitch McConnell would still have reached his own brass ring.
    — Alex Pareene, The New Republic, 23 Sep. 2020
  • Norris grabbed four out of five podiums for McLaren in 2021 but couldn’t quite grab the brass ring and reel in a victory.
    — Maury Brown, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2022
  • Then, this student digs up this brass ring from the late 19th century, which is perfect because brass was the poor man’s gold during that time period.
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Oct. 2021
  • Brandy and Eve play former members of a 1990s girl group that reunites for another shot at the brass ring in this new drama.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2021
  • That’ll also mark the return of the brass ring game, in which riders win a free ticket by skillfully snagging a small metal ring while whizzing by at up to 13 mph.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2021
  • The set includes nylon jaw pliers, round nose pliers, bent nose pliers, diagonal cut nose pliers, flat nose pliers, wire looping pliers, and a brass ring.
    — Chris Hachey, BGR, 3 May 2021
  • Rallies in Olympia or Salem draw in mostly local demonstrators, but Portland remains the brass ring for far-right organizers.
    — Robert Evans, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2021
  • For any comic looking to evolve from an open mic newbie to a bona fide monster, a chance to step on stage and crush at the Sunset Boulevard venue is still the brass ring that inspires them to improve their craft.
    — Ali Lerman, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2022
  • But his voice was his brass ring — a jaunty, rapid staccato, breaking into squeaky dolphin-talk or falsetto sobbing to expose the do-gooders with his inventive, bruising vocabulary.
    — Star Tribune, 17 Feb. 2021

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