How to Use ringtone in a Sentence

ringtone

noun
  • Leah’s ringtone is the same one from the show.
    — Olivia Crandall, Vulture, 8 Aug. 2025
  • These files can be used for alarms and alerts, as well as ringtones.
    — David Nield, WIRED, 5 Mar. 2023
  • Through the day, the duck ringtone on his cellphone goes off.
    — Dawn Lim, WSJ, 6 Jan. 2022
  • Für Elise has even become a ringtone.
    — Brian Duignan, Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • The music that Anne fawns over sounds like a Nokia ringtone.
    — Zackery Cuevas, PC Magazine, 14 Apr. 2026
  • But somebody last night had a Biggie song as a ringtone that just went on.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 11 May 2026
  • Someone turning on a radio — or wait, was that just a cell phone ringtone?
    — New York Times, 20 Nov. 2020
  • 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
  • When alerts came, the vibrations and ringtones were jarring.
    — Leah Willingham, Fortune, 7 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • Making your own ringtones was genuinely a flex.
    — Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 23 Mar. 2026
  • The cry was even featured on The Simpsons and one web site sells it as a ringtone.
    — Amanda Christovich, USA TODAY, 13 July 2018
  • The tracks on that record, all under three minutes long, were intended to be ringtones.
    — Alec M. Priester, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2016
  • The incoming call emits a blaring ringtone that alerts a three-man crew at a moment’s notice.
    — Kansas City Star, 14 May 2026
  • 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
  • From there, follow the ringtone or vibration to its location.
    — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 11 July 2019
  • The thunderclap sound the 720s emits from downshifting is quite thrilling and is now my ringtone.
    — Kayvan Nikjou, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2021
  • Miller’s phone began to make the sound of a dog barking—his ringtone—as members and employees of the ranches sent texts and e-mails.
    — Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
  • McBling is a grainy song ringtone blaring out of your Motorola's speaker.
    — Abrigail Williams, Vogue, 15 Aug. 2022
  • With so many ringtones now available, though, the sounds say more about how people express themselves — and what can cause stress and anxiety.
    — Krystal Hur, CNN, 23 June 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Catherine’s just found a letter confirming Nicholas lost his job when her phone starts ringing (though her ringtone sounds more like an alarm tone to me).
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • Generic vacation raps over a beat that sounds like several Sidekick ringtones playing at the same time.
    — Stephen Kearse, Vulture, 4 Feb. 2025
  • After reinserting the long needle in my spine at a second point, the resident jumped in reaction to her ringtone.
    — Timothy Snyder, The New York Review of Books, 3 Sep. 2020
  • Sampson says the caller ID showed her name and photo, and the familiar ringtone sounded.
    — Mike Winters, CNBC, 9 May 2026
  • 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

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