Example sentences for: chimes

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

  • The atmosphere of civic pride and civic hypocrisy, the mingled air of awe and contempt toward governmental institutions, rings not the bell of cliché but many eerie tintinnabulations: the gongs and chimes of public life, the distinct sounds of what we say, what we know we mean and what we don't know we mean.

  • Canterbury bells are nothing like Westminster chimes, Manchester tart is different from Bakewell.

  • There is an unconfirmed story that Laredo , Texas, was named for the sounds made by the chimes in the Catholic church: la, re , and do . Another folk etymology has it that the Snake River was so named because it coiled back and forth so much.

  • To the tune of gongs and chimes, visitors knelt to kowtow nine times.

  • Built in 1987, the 42 m- (138 ft-) tall tower contains a 68-bell carillon, played by hand on a special keyboard, which chimes daily at noon and six.


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