BELL in a Sentence

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For BELL, below is one of 251 sentences:
When I again unclosed my eyes, a loud bell was ringing; day had not yet begun to dawn, and a rush light or two burned in the room.

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 Meanings and Examples of BELL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
bell
 n.  a hollow metal object shaped like a cup that makes a ringing sound when hit
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  With the unreasonable petulance of mankind I rang the bell and gave a curt intimation that I was ready.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
2  As he spoke there was a sharp ring at the bell.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR
3  There was a violent peal at the bell, and in a few seconds the fair-haired detective came up the stairs, three steps at a time, and burst into our sitting-room.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
4  Alas, in less than an hour there was a ring at the bell, and I learned that Mr. Drebber had returned.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
5  Scattered, shattered, hither thither summoned by the bell.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 9
6  The door, which was equipped with neither bell nor knocker, was blistered and distained.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR
7  The bell was ringing, and the Serpent was a Serpent of many coils, and the Elephant was getting ready.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII
8  The strange old woman was delighted with the very bell.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII
9  At last, when the darkness and stillness had seemed for hours to thicken one another, she heard the bell at the gate.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
10  A belfry rose above the porch on four small pillars, within which hung the green and weatherbeaten bell, the feeble sounds of which had been some time before heard by the Black Knight.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
11  As they thus conversed, the heavy bell of the church of Saint Michael of Templestowe, a venerable building, situated in a hamlet at some distance from the Preceptory, broke short their argument.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
12  He reached and rang the bell for Mrs Bolton.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
13  And he stuck flowers in the hair of his own body, and wound a bit of creeping-jenny round his penis, and stuck a single bell of a hyacinth in his navel.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
14  A bicycle bell tinkled outside there.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
15  These words, in plain English, conveyed an injunction to ring the bell.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
Example Sentence: (41 in 3 pages)
16  A pull on the rope will make the bell ring.
17  As the fool thinks, so the bell clinks.
18  I was roused by the sound of a bell.
19  The sound of the bell was muffled by the curtains.
20  When I again unclosed my eyes, a loud bell was ringing; day had not yet begun to dawn, and a rush light or two burned in the room.
21  She was leaning over, with part of her upper deck above water, and you could see every little chimbly-guy clean and clear, and a chair by the big bell, with an old slouch hat hanging on the back of it, when the flashes come.
22  We hear the church bell toll the hour again.
23  Pavlov's experiment in which he trains a dog to salivate on hearing a bell is a paradigm of the conditioned-response experiment in behavioral psychology.
24  Wishing to be undisturbed by the bell, Dale wound his scarf around the clapper to muffle the noise of its striking.
25  The congregation being fully assembled, now, the bell rang once more, to warn laggards and stragglers, and then a solemn hush fell upon the church which was only broken by the tittering and whispering of the choir in the gallery.
26  Somebody, unseen, rang the bell merrily; then Adele (who had insisted on being one of her guardian's party), bounded forward, scattering round her the contents of a basket of flowers she carried on her arm.
27  The two of them went everywhere together and their friends could already hear wedding bells.
28  Church bells tolled and black flags fluttered.
29  The church bells rang out to welcome in the New Year.
30  A peal of church bells rang out in the distance.