adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
tone
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She went back to the telephone, dialled Sybil's number and waited for the ringing tone .
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She dialled the number carefully and heard the distant ringing tone .
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Newman gripped the phone tightly, listening to the ringing tone .
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He listened to the ringing tone repeated for more than a minute before he gave up.
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The ringing tone came: once, twice, six times ... Out, she thought.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be ringing off the hook
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The phone was ringing off the hook here all weekend.