Ring in

John has just rung in sick. He won't be back till Monday, he says.

We will ring in the New Year at a ski resort.

T'other day as Apollo sat pitching his darts / Through the clouds of November, by fits and by starts, / He began to consider how long it had been, / Since the bards of Old England had all been rung in.

Attend now, my braves. I have mustered ye all round this capstan; and ye mates, flank me with your lances; and ye harpooneers, stand there with your irons; and ye, stout mariners, ring me in, that I may in some sort revive a noble custom of my fisherman fathers before me.

All the world was only the two Copleigh girls, Saumarez and I, ringed in with the lightning and the dark; and the guidance of this misguided world seemed to lie in my hands.

He was ringed in on all sides by a solid circle of gleaming red sparks that shone from the grass. Held back by their fear, the graveyard rats surrounded him, squealing their hate.