Sentence examples for a peal of from inspiring English sources

Her careful exterior shattered into a peal of coquettish giggles.

The end result was always a peal of giggles.

A peal of uneasy laughter ricochets through the group.

"No!" she said, letting out a peal of laughter.

The King emits a peal of laughter that sounds like defeat itself.

"You killed it!" he said, eliciting a peal of giggles from the interns.

It's campy, overwritten in places ("The word was like a breaking heart, a sudden peal of stifled bells in a gale, the last syllables of one dying of thirst in the desert"), and of gimcrack design.

That is a funny joke," said my Aunt Anna-Greta with a hearty peal of laughter and a knee slap.

"I don't know who I am, but I can't stay here," Ms. Merritt half-sighs in "Still Not Home," against a steady beat and a rough peal of guitars (Marc Ribot on electric, Eric Heywood on pedal steel).

The moment when the main theme returned in the home key, about two-thirds of the way through the movement, was shatteringly powerful: a radiant peal of brass over a blaze of string sound.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch spotlights a fugal peal of bells by Durufle and a dazzling operatic transcription, plus a work from JS Bach on one of Europe's most celebrated historic organs.