Sentence examples for ringing bell from inspiring English sources

Alfie begins as quiet as a distantly ringing bell and is then explored with graceful respect for its famous theme, but Girl From Ipanema is a moody, often tempo-less rumination on the samba hit that completely remodels it.

With Kurt to observe her, Alice's face floods with light; her voice acquires ringing bell tones; anticipating her husband's imminent death, she sheds her at-home drudgery clothes in two witty variations on dressing to kill.

I learned this because a loud, ringing bell told me so – but we'll get to that later.

The "phone" part of the mobile phone is important not because of the voice communication it enables, but rather from the habit and etiquette that the ringing bell created in society and the direct access it grants to the caller.

KMART made a generation of bargain hunters react like starving dogs to a ringing bell.

The Hampshire singer is led on by a town crier's ringing bell.

It was designed to bear great tension from the heavy brass strings (normally 30 to 50), which were plucked by the fingernails to produce a ringing, bell-like sound.

The highlight of the evening was their first encore, "Torna a Sorriento" (a genuine piece of Italian song tradition), in which you could hear how good they can be: Mr. Álvarez with a slightly softer, warm timbre (and what sounded, in other selections, like a firm high C), Mr. Licitra with a ringing, bell-like tone.

Still not ringing a bell?

I was ringing the bell.

Then, "Wait, it's ringing a bell".