The gracious tone rang very false in the small space.

Everything she had said to me in Richmond last fall rang false.

My head was spinning, and everything I said seemed to ring false.

When she was alive, I would have said the same thing, but now the words rang false.

Something about it must have rung false, because she frowned.

What bothered her most was that she thought the course's premise rang false.

But the words ring false in my brain, making me wince.

It was as if every word she said rang false.

But even as she said the words, they rang false in her ears.

I thought perhaps he felt that my humility rang false.