Sentence examples for a bell of a from inspiring English sources

A plasmon is a type of electrical wave, and a shell of a particular size will resonate with a plasmon of a particular frequency, rather as a bell of a particular size resonates with a particular note when struck.That is useful because an object's plasmon-resonance frequency governs many of its optical properties, including which wavelength of light it absorbs most easily.

The weak force, Richard read, does not appreciably affect the structure of the nucleus before the decay occurs; it is like a flaw in a bell of cast metal which has no effect on the ringing of the bell until it finally causes the bell to fall into pieces.

The very first page devotes a full paragraph to overextending the metaphor of an "alarm bell of anxiety" ringing in a suburban house, in a community heavy-handedly called St . Jude

"I look like Grayson Perry," I wailed, in a dress with a bow under my bosom and a great bell of a skirt.

I was thinking the circles were like the diameter of a horn, the bell of a trumpet, so I said so. "The painting is called 'Jazz' and you can have it".

As soon as he delivered his last line, the shiny brass bell of a sousaphone shot up like a hasty sunrise.

Nabokov reaches down a hand to pick me You are miniature, and I put you in the bell of a saxophone and play a long soulful B-flat I am a living male turtleneck.

These include directives for the insertion or removal of mutes (con sordino; senza sordino), the retuning of a string (scordatura), raising the bell of a wind instrument into the air (usually in German music, Schalltrichter auf!), and other actions.

The tones are followed by a moment of silence, and the effect is not unlike the strike of a bell before a meditation session.

On each conditioning trial the sound of a bell or a metronome is promptly followed by food powder blown by an air puff into the dog's mouth.

The banana split ($8) is pretty basic, but the stunning Manhattan skyline view is one heck of a bell or a whistle.