bell
Example Sentences
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A shop owner has described how she locks her door during opening hours and customers have to ring the bell to get in after her store was targeted by thieves last year.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
You raise voice, the guide warns, that like dinner bell for Simba.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
There’s no such thing, and should set off a huge alarm bell.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
One of the jets hijacked on 9/11 hit the Pentagon in Washington, killing 184 people who were remembered by a single bell tolling as their names were read out.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
We both looked up at the bell tower.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
