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

“We specialize in craft lattes…we have breakfast burritos,” Marcos said, with the beaming mayor chiming in “Oh boy!”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 2, 2025

Town council minutes indicate the concerns were discussed in a meeting at the end of July, during which councillors said the clock's chiming was part of the "character of the town".

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

Now this singing warbled up from around a bend in the creek, like a bad barbershop quartet with extra voices chiming in: Camptou’n ladies sing this sung, Doo-dah. doo-dah.

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck