Ring-a-Ring o' Roses

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A children's rhyme, also known as “Ring around the Rosie”:

Ring-a-ring o' roses,
A pocket full of posies,
Ashes! Ashes!
We all fall down.

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How to use Ring-a-Ring o' Roses in a sentence

A lot of people ring in the New Year with vows to lose weight and exercise.
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Yes, Byrd—dead four-and-a-half years now—was a Kleagle in the Ku Klux Klan.
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These brave souls took an icy dip in the ocean to ring in 2015 and raise money for charity.
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By the time it concluded with a sing-a-long of “XO,” Beyoncé had done the rare thing.
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Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.
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Now-a-days it is the bankrupt who flouts, and his too confiding creditors who are jeered and laughed at.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley
Mary is fair as the morning dew— Cheeks of roses and ribbons of blue!
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He felt himself the meanest, vilest thing a-crawl upon this sinful earth, and she—dear God!
St. Martin's Summer|Rafael Sabatini
All that scientific bric-a-brac in the cupboard had far better be thrown away.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells