How to Use ringside in a Sentence

ringside

1 of 2 noun
  • We were seated at ringside.
  • The two cousins brawled back to ringside.
    — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
  • Book dinner ringside for the best seat in the house.
    — Belinda Luksic, Southern Living, 2 May 2026
  • No one seems to notice the man at ringside with tears in his eyes.
    — Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 18 Nov. 2021
  • Get your tickets and ringside seats now.
    — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 3 Feb. 2026
  • My father kept telling me to throw more punches from the ringside.
    — Robert Morales, Orange County Register, 22 Jan. 2013
  • All ringside packages sold out within a week of the event’s on-sale date.
    — Joey Hayden, Dallas News, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Andy Mitten took a ringside seat.
    — Phil Hay, New York Times, 28 May 2026
  • Trump sat ringside for the event, which was held on his own 80th birthday.
    — Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 24 June 2026
  • There also will be no ringside judges and no winner will be declared.
    — Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 28 Nov. 2020
  • The ringside seats are a fond memory of meals in the States, says the chef.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2023
  • Kairi Sane was brilliant in her role as a concerned friend ringside.
    — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Time is running out to grab a ringside seat — but there are still options available.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 16 May 2026
  • Aliev claimed he hadn't even been warned, although others at ringside disagreed.
    — Greg Beacham, ajc, 2 Aug. 2021
  • An usher gave us seat cushions, and we were told to sit on the steps beside the first two rows at ringside.
    — New York Times, 28 Mar. 2021
  • Saquon Shugars and Cutler James were barred from ringside.
    — Fernando Quiles Jr, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Mae Ying opted to watch this match from ringside rather than remaining in her throne.
    — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2021
  • Priest carried Bunny back to ringside and put him against a ringpost.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2023
  • The shake-shake-shake of drinks is music to the ears of ringside participants.
    — Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2021
  • There will be a pre-show meet-n-greet around ringside included in the price of admission.
    — Jim Varsallone, miamiherald, 25 May 2017
  • That day, as usual, customers paid a cover charge to get in, a bit extra to sit at ringside seats.
    — David Ovalle, miamiherald, 12 June 2018
  • For 55 of those years, Bynum has served as a familiar face ringside.
    — William Lee, Chicago Tribune, 19 Mar. 2023
  • And there at ringside, his good eye peering through his Rolleiflex, was Schiller.
    — David Margolick, Air Mail, 3 Jan. 2026
  • The cost to attend is $5 for adults, $3 for children and $10 for ringside seats.
    — Arkansas Online, 24 Apr. 2021
  • But sports celebrities in ringside seats hinted at Davis’s appeal among his pro athlete peers.
    — New York Times, 6 Dec. 2021
  • The highlight of the night, though, was Rhodes sending Shaq through a ringside table.
    — Jace Evans, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Cody, wearing business attire, attacked Drew at ringside and through the crowd.
    — Matthew Couden, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Jolie and Knox's twin sister, Vivienne, were seen cheering him on ringside at the event.
    — Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 7 June 2026
  • The match ended in a double count-out after both women went through the ringside barricade.
    — Andrew Ravens‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Thanks to views that overlook the park, guests experience a ringside seat to the daily fireworks show.
    — Maggie Turner, Air Mail, 20 Sep. 2025

ringside

2 of 2 adjective
  • Rahaman Ali had a ringside seat for nearly all of his brother’s life.
    — Tim Sullivan, USA TODAY, 14 Nov. 2020
  • This thing goes everywhere, from ringside to the ramp to the concession stand.
    — cleveland, 3 Apr. 2020
  • Wilder fought cautiously for the first six rounds, finding himself in the hole on the cards of the three ringside judges.
    — Tim Dahlberg, The Denver Post, 24 Nov. 2019
  • The truth was his father had a ringside seat to some aspects of the space race that not everyone had access to.
    — Denise Coffey, courant.com, 15 July 2019
  • The best seats are ringside at the chef’s counter — close enough to feel the heat and to watch chickens and sausages slowly smoke behind the flames.
    — Patricia Harris and David Lyon, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Cruz, who also sometimes works as a ringside color analyst, said that shift is part of the maturity of the sport.
    — Jay Reddick, OrlandoSentinel.com, 20 Feb. 2018
  • Kotak has enjoyed a ringside seat while watching India’s distressed market swell.
    — Anita Raghavan, New York Times, 29 May 2017
  • Ward remained down for several minutes while being attended to by the ringside doctors.
    — Damian Calhoun, Orange County Register, 21 Jan. 2017
  • Admission is free, but people who pay $10 can get premium ringside seating.
    — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Not only had Nature solved our prickly problem, but thanks to sitting on our hands, we’d been given a ringside seat at one of its great spectacles.
    — Isabella Tree, Time, 3 Oct. 2019
  • Artists-writers versus streaming giants, while many of us sit ringside, feet up with our Beats on, chewing popcorn and listening to tunes for free.
    — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 25 Jan. 2018
  • People gathered along the Washington side of the river for a ringside seat to an enthralling and humbling display of nature’s forces.
    — Hal Bernton, The Seattle Times, 9 Sep. 2017
  • Visitors will not only be able to sample and purchase bottles of TX Whiskey, but also get a ringside seat to how it is made.
    — star-telegram, 1 Nov. 2017
  • Dowler had a ringside seat as his aged understudy tallied seven catches for 138 yards and two acrobatic touchdowns.
    — Kevin Cusick, Twin Cities, 24 Apr. 2017
  • Bliss did get in some offense, but most of the match involved Nia Jax getting her revenge by brutally tossing Bliss around the ring and ringside area.
    — Aaron Oster, baltimoresun.com, 9 Apr. 2018
  • Fortuna fell out of the ring when he was entangled with Granados during Round 4 and possibly hit the back of his head on a ringside camera box.
    — Drew Davison, star-telegram, 16 June 2018
  • It's covered from wall to wall with boxing posters, newspaper clippings, boxing gloves and even a Madison Square Garden ringside bell.
    — Nicole Chavez, CNN, 7 May 2020
  • The next night, a spotlight shone on Vélez’s empty ringside seat at the Hollywood Legion Stadium.
    — Hadley Meares, Los Angeles Magazine, 8 Feb. 2018
  • Really, though, boxing is a more apt sports metaphor than a horse race, since journalists tend to count every action or sentence from a politician as a jab, cross, or knockdown blow with the relish of a ringside announcer.
    — Sarah Jaffe, New Republic, 13 Oct. 2017
  • After one, Rolls’ promoter, Lou DiBella, leaped out of his ringside seat, perhaps believing history could be made in the same month twice.
    — Chris Mannix, SI.com, 10 June 2019
  • But Wilder made it to the bell, and was afforded an extra 10 seconds or so of rest when the ringside physician summoned him to a neutral corner for an examination as the bell rang for Round 8.
    — Wallace Matthews, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2018
  • Shields plans on going down to 160 pounds in the near future, possibly next, to fight undefeated middleweight champion Christina Hammer of Germany, who was ringside for the fight.
    — Bob Velin, USA TODAY, 13 Jan. 2018

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