rang

¹

[rang]

verb

1. simple past tense of ring.

rang

²

[rang]

noun

Informal.

1. a boomerang.

rang

/ ræŋ /

verb

1. the past tense of ring 2

Word History and Origins

Origin of rang¹

By shortening

Example Sentences

Several other gunshots also rang out, followed by screams, but the footage doesn't show whether others were attacked.

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Then on Tuesday, Beijing sanctioned U.S. subsidiaries of a South Korean shipping firm, sparking a global stock-market selloff that had largely reversed by the time the closing bell rang out on Wall Street.

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As chants of "There's only one Dave Allen" rang around the venue, the home fighter had to bite down on his gumshield early on and take thudding blows from Makhmudov.

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“I was in the bathroom, and the phone rang, and they yelled my name. I was like, ‘All right, here we go,’” Glasnow said afterward.

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At the moment his phone rang, he says, a single flower was in his line of vision, the same bloom in the pivotal Frankenstein scene where the monster throws a little girl into a lake.

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Related Words

• bang 
• buzz 
• clang 
• clap 
• punch 
• resonate 
• resound 
• reverberate 
• sound