BELL in a Sentence

Learn BELL from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
251 example sentences for BELL, such as:
1. The church bell tolled the hour.
2. A cracked bell can never sound well.
3. A bicycle bell tinkled outside there.
4. He raised the hammer and hit the bell.
5. The bell rang for the lesson to begin.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of BELL
bell
 n.  the sound of a bell being struck
 n.  the shape of a bell
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)
1  The children listened for the bell to announce the New Year.
2  He rang the bell and waited for someone to answer the door.
3  I've been ringing the door bell, there's no answer.
4  His voice came down the line as clear as a bell.
5  A cracked bell can never sound well.
6  Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
7  The bell rang for the lesson to begin.
8  The big bell in the Temple of Reclining Buddha was recast in the sixteenth century.
9  A notable feature of the church is its unusual bell tower.
10  The church bell tolled the hour.
11  The church bell used to be rung to signify disaster.
12  They could hear the sound of a bell tolling in the distance.
13  He raised the hammer and hit the bell.
14  She huddled inside the porch as she rang the bell.
15  Miss Peel tinkled her desk bell and they all sat down again.