rang

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Gone are its potbellied stove, water pump and wooden outhouses, and a 1996 renovation brought computers and new flooring, but the bell Briana rang is the original and students still perform a Christmas pageant every year.

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  1. verb Past tense of ring2.

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  • Boromir leaped forward and hewed at the arm with all his might; but his sword rang, glanced aside, and fell from his shaken hand. —  The Lord of the Rings
  • When the phone rang, the clock on the microwave in their kitchen in Spanish Hills, east of Boulder, read 8:54. —  RemoteControl
  • When the phone rang, they both sprang for the door. —  Patterson, James - [Alex Cross 12] - Cross
  • The phone rang, and he stopped laughing There was no direct rail service to Entebbe. —  Kahawa
  • The telephone rang, and its ring was not like any other, a quaint sound. —  Maigret Afraid—70—Georges Simenon
 

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