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- verb Present participle of
unring .
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Examples
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I recognize the practical impossibility of unringing the bell.
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Sounds to me like this is more like ‘unringing a bell’.
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And it turns out that he's just not good at unringing the bell.
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Sounds to me like this is more like ‘unringing a bell’.
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Both voices were very quiet and unringing; without any special character of readiness or discouragement.
The Shadow Line 1917
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The blows of the sea seemed to traverse it in an unringing, stunning shock, from side to side.
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Jimmy looked annoyed and said nothing for a while; then in a lifeless unringing voice: -- 'Why should I shout?
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The blows of the sea seemed to traverse it in an unringing, stunning shock, from side to side.
Typhoon Joseph Conrad 1890
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"Tell me, Natalia Victorovna," he was heard at last in a strange unringing voice, "whom did you see in that place?"
Under Western Eyes Joseph Conrad 1890
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Both voices were very quiet and unringing; without any special character of readiness or discouragement.
The Shadow Line; a confession Joseph Conrad 1890
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