chiming

Example Sentences

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For the following “Cruise Ship Designer,” Mr. Dowse’s chiming guitar riff serves as the engine of the tune, as Ms. Shaw burrows deep into a character we haven’t really heard of in a song before.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 6, 2026

Two pianists weave together brief musical statements—crawling, low-end figures; chiming high notes; staggered phrases; wisps of possible melodies.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2025

Mr Morgan said the hotel had to move guests to other rooms due to complaints, adding he believed it was a "reasonable request" that the chiming be stopped during limited nighttime hours.

From BBC • Aug. 30, 2025

Not so Maps, which, as we neared San José, began chiming in with a quite complicated alternate route, designed, I assumed, to avoid freeway traffic.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 1, 2025

He heard a gentle chiming in the air, above the hubbub of the market; and this he walked toward.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman