Example sentences for: chimes

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

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

  • The three-tiered brick pagoda has gilded roofing, is topped by a golden bell-shaped cupola, and is decorated under the eaves by a fringe of wind chimes.

  • 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.

  • Her colleague and co-director, Tanya Paparella, chimes in, “It as if we are opening a window or door to the autistic brain.”

  • For a small fee, visitors can sound a set of stone chimes that date from the Warring States Period (475–221 b.c.).


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