Example sentences for: bells

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

  • Meanwhile, WorldCom is spinning the deal as "the single best hope for a strong and effective alternative to the mega-Bells and the emerging AT&T cable monopoly."

  • ,” mind you), whose name does not ring the bells in my head that are (w)rung by names like Marilyn Monroe, Margaret Thatcher, and Marie, Queen of Rumania, is identified as “the” model, as if she were being distinguished from the Rachael Garley who succeeded Sir Randolph Quirk as president of the British Academy and that other Rachael Garley whom we all know to be the (not “a”) power behind Boris Yeltsin or Saddam Husein.

  • Poe, for example, used repetition in his poem The Bells to convey to the reader a sense of actually hearing the tolling of the bells, as though the sounds themselves were imprinted on the page.

  • As the double-decker boats get ready to leave the pier, bells ring, the gangplank is raised, deckhands in blue sailor suits man the hawsers, and a couple of hundred commuters begin a seven-minute sightseeing tour.

  • Traditional eight bells are struck.


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