1
: encircled or marked with or as if with rings
2
: composed or formed of rings
Examples of ringed in a Sentence
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The corpses are washing up by the thousands on Southern California’s beaches: a transparent ringed oval like a giant thumbprint 2 to 3 inches long, with a sail-like fin running diagonally down the length of the body.
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Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2024
Scientists previously thought Mimas was just a big chunk of ice before NASA’s Cassini mission studied Saturn and some of its 146 moons by orbiting the ringed planet between 2004 and 2017.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 7 Feb. 2024
Theoretically, liquid water should flow beneath Mimas’s icy crust: Mimas has an elliptical orbit around Saturn that sends the moon swinging closer to the ringed planet and then farther away from it.
—Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 7 Feb. 2024
Previous research by Jared and others has documented some of the ringed caecilians’ unorthodox parenting methods.
—Popular Science, 7 Mar. 2024
The Wonka actor was photographed wearing a black sleeveless, hooded Stüssy sweatshirt with ringed cut-outs at his shoulders.
—Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 2 Feb. 2024
The monarch’s black, white and yellow ringed caterpillars also eat common milkweed leaves, then form jewel-like chrysalides, which hang from those leaves.
—Susan Degrane, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2024
The wondrous ringed world will look especially lovely through a telescope at this time.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 5 Jan. 2024
Saturn Reaches Equinox Saturn goes through seasons just like Earth does, though, with the ringed planet’s 29-Earth-year orbit, each season lasts for more than seven years.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 5 Jan. 2024
Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2024
Scientists previously thought Mimas was just a big chunk of ice before NASA’s Cassini mission studied Saturn and some of its 146 moons by orbiting the ringed planet between 2004 and 2017.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 7 Feb. 2024
Theoretically, liquid water should flow beneath Mimas’s icy crust: Mimas has an elliptical orbit around Saturn that sends the moon swinging closer to the ringed planet and then farther away from it.
—Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 7 Feb. 2024
Previous research by Jared and others has documented some of the ringed caecilians’ unorthodox parenting methods.
—Popular Science, 7 Mar. 2024
The Wonka actor was photographed wearing a black sleeveless, hooded Stüssy sweatshirt with ringed cut-outs at his shoulders.
—Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 2 Feb. 2024
The monarch’s black, white and yellow ringed caterpillars also eat common milkweed leaves, then form jewel-like chrysalides, which hang from those leaves.
—Susan Degrane, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2024
The wondrous ringed world will look especially lovely through a telescope at this time.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 5 Jan. 2024
Saturn Reaches Equinox Saturn goes through seasons just like Earth does, though, with the ringed planet’s 29-Earth-year orbit, each season lasts for more than seven years.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 5 Jan. 2024
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“Ringed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ringed. Accessed 17 May. 2024.
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