Example sentences for: bell

How can you use “bell” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Just beyond is the great bell, which used to be rung to call the populace for important announcements, and, a little further along, a pair of huge drums.

  • A bell tower was added by the Byzantines who named it Agia Sophia, also meaning wisdom.

  • Big Bell Temple (Da Zhong Si) received its apt name in 1743, when the largest bronze bell in China was placed here.

  • Since The Bell Curve was published, it has become clear that almost everything about it was inexcusably wrong: suspect data, mistakes in statistical procedures that would have flunked a sophomore (Murray--Herrnstein is deceased--clearly does not understand what a correlation coefficient means), deliberate suppression of contrary evidence, you name it.

  • Other temples of significant interest and variety are Big Bell Temple (Dazhongsi), with China’s leading collection of antique bells; Temple of the White Pagoda (Baitasi), with its newly renovated 13th century Tibetan stupa, China’s largest; Five Pagoda Temple (Wutasi), decorated with Indian-influenced sculptures; and White Clouds Daoist Temple (Baiyuanguan), where Beijingers of all ages crowd in to pray for good fortune at a variety of most unusual shrines.


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