How to Use ringleader in a Sentence

ringleader

noun
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  • Snoop was the ringleader and all his homies came along for the ride.
    — Bob Guccione Jr., SPIN, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Jimmy was the ringleader, and that was the point of the story.
    — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 31 Jan. 2020
  • She’s been a ringleader for the group trying to get Hobbs off the streets.
    — Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Sep. 2022
  • The 20-year-old was considered the ringleader of the crime, the AP reports.
    — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 18 May 2024
  • The ringleader, a man of Iraqi descent, was sentenced to 17 years.
    — Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2020
  • The ringleader had been at the bank hours before the break-in posing as a customer.
    — Tracy Smith, CBS News, 11 Feb. 2023
  • Young has been the ringleader of a young, up-and-coming team all season.
    — Matt Eppers, USA TODAY, 29 May 2021
  • The last death is the best: At long last, the ringleader is stalked through the cornfields in arguably the film’s scariest scene.
    — Gem Seddon, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Bystanders point to Colleen Doyle and Maggie Biszko as two of the ringleaders.
    — al, 17 Nov. 2019
  • Strong, whom a judge called the ringleader of the $1.5 million fraud scheme, also faces a wire fraud charge.
    — Alanna Durkin Richer, USA TODAY, 4 Dec. 2020
  • The boys pinned her arms back and took her to their ringleader, who would decide what to do with her next.
    — New York Times, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Liss, the ringleader of the MFMD, has a background in politics.
    — Taylor Lorenz, Washington Post, 13 May 2022
  • That’s the person to appoint as ringleader to help streamline the process.
    — Pamela Wright, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Around eight-thirty, Haskell, the ringleader, announced that the men had made their point.
    — Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2020
  • Has put up crazy passing and rushing numbers, and is the ringleader of the NFC’s No. 1 team.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Nov. 2021
  • As mentioned above, ringleader Pratt has fled the country and may not be easy to track down.
    — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 4 Jan. 2020
  • Ask him two things — who was the ringleader and who else was involved in the kidnapping.
    — Jake Adelstein, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2023
  • By now everyone knows the ringleader of The Eras Tour, but what about the cast and crew who shine alongside her?
    — Bryan West, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Late last year, a court ruled that Ms. Weidel could no longer refer to Mr. Mfouapon as the ringleader.
    — New York Times, 30 Apr. 2021
  • And then there was Milken, their ringleader, who knew every bond in the market, who owned it, and at what price.
    — Bob Ivry, Town & Country, 3 June 2021
  • The 17 ringleaders, Heroux said, were sent to other county jails around the state.
    — Adam Sennott, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Woods has been perceived as the ringleader of the kidnapping scheme, said Banos, who took on his case in 2017.
    — Holly Yan, CNN, 2 Apr. 2022
  • Hulu isn't the first platform to retell the disturbing case at Sarah Lawrence and its ringleader.
    — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 8 Feb. 2023
  • The court ruled that Chen was the ringleader of a criminal gang that had committed a series of crimes over the past decade.
    — Wayne Chang, CNN, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Both ringleaders were free by the end of 2003, their prison stays a mere blink of an eye—and expected to put their crimes behind them.
    — Geoff Manaugh, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2019
  • Artur Ayvazyan, the ringleader’s brother, was sentenced last month to five years in prison for his part in the scam.
    — Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Riza, who with Montgomery has been described as the ringleaders of the scheme, faces similar charges as him.
    — Michael Gartland, New York Daily News, 5 Feb. 2024
  • So far no ringleader has emerged to push for Mr. Johnson’s removal.
    — Max Colchester, WSJ, 31 Jan. 2022
  • White does not deny being the Spurs’ ringleader in that regard.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 13 Dec. 2021
  • Middleton, described as the group's ringleader, was sentenced to 17½ years in prison.
    — Joshua Williams, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2024

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