bell-ringer

Example Sentences

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“There were so many bodies,” said the church’s bell-ringer, 87-year-old Petro Potapenko, gesturing toward what had been a sandy trench where dozens of corpses were unearthed after the Russians retreated from their attempt to seize Kyiv.

From Los Angeles Times

This year’s distribution of the special mints is significant in the sense that COVID-19 has wreaked havoc on the elderly population throughout the world and this year, the eldest of the 188 recipients is 101-year-old Thomas Brock who will also carry the honor of the oldest active bell-ringer in the world, according to a statement released by the royal family on Thursday.

From Fox News

Mr van Hout says the piece was named after the book's bell-ringer because "it's a human form that's not quite human as well. The idea of something that resembles a human but is not quite human".

From BBC

For the future “great man” of French literature, the book’s main attraction was the gothic cathedral itself, not its hunchbacked bell-ringer.

From The Guardian

“Tobias was our bell-ringer tonight,” 76ers Coach Brett Brown said Thursday after the 131-115 win gave Philadelphia a two-games-to-one lead in the best-of-seven series, which resumes Saturday in Brooklyn.

From New York Times