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verb

Definition of pealnext
as in to ring
to make the clear sound heard when metal vibrates the village bells pealed every hour in commemoration

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noun

as in ring

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Recent Examples of peal
Verb
The bells of Westminster Abbey pealed for an hour. — Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2026 Lively conversations peal out from the many restaurants, cafés, and lounges where locals and visitors mingle late into the night. — Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Feb. 2026
Noun
The solemn peal of a temple bell rang out 108 times — an auspicious number — as people flocked to the Baoan Temple in Taipei on Tuesday morning. — ABC News, 16 Feb. 2026 This last part seemed to be a joke, eliciting a peal of laughter from his wife. — Natasha O'Neill, Vanity Fair, 3 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for peal
Recent Examples of Synonyms for peal
  1. ring
  2. tintinnabulation
  3. chime
  4. ding-dong
  5. knell
  6. plink
  7. clang
  8. rattle
Verb
  • Even as the 2024-25 season hoved into view, the phone failed to ring, prompting James to wonder if this really was it for a senior career that, up to then, had been spent exclusively in the top two divisions of the English game.
    — Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2026
  • About 100 people were gathered near Ooh La La Lounge and Bar when the shots rang out, according to News 12 Brooklyn.
    — John Annese, New York Daily News, 16 Aug. 2026
Definition of ring
Noun
  • Cloudy chords, meditative tintinnabulation, the whoosh of wind and rain, blocks of iridescent brass — all these discrete sonorities trundled by, like a train of boxcars with panoramas painted on their sides.
    — Justin Davidson, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Shivaree, chthonian, erumpent, tintinnabulation, exonumia, requiescat, deipnosophist, omphaloskepsis, horripilation, deliquesce, apopemptic.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2021
Definition of tintinnabulation
Verb
  • Soon after the post went up, Grado said, her Venmo started chiming.
    — Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 4 Aug. 2026
  • When ships passed through the channel, residents would wave towels and sheets out their windows, Franciscans chiming the hilltop monastery’s bells as a friendly welcome.
    — Lane Nieset, Travel + Leisure, 31 July 2026
Definition of chime
Noun
  • If, however, Madrid find themselves in end-to-end ding-dongs next season — the kind that Guardiola spent his career, and particularly his final season at City, trying to avoid — then Bernardo may not be the man for the occasion.
    — Sam Lee, New York Times, 23 June 2026
  • Hopefully, now this kid can stop being a moody ass little ding-dong about it.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 8 May 2026
Definition of ding-dong
Noun
  • Experts suggest this isn't a death knell for American and European firms, who are strategically focusing on product refinement and reliability before mass scaling, aiming for sustainable market entry rather than rapid, potentially flawed, volume.
    — John Koetsier, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2026
  • For a big-market, win-now team like the Sparks, mediocrity is a death knell.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2026
Definition of knell
Noun
  • The orchestration — rich, fluid, and glistening with the vaguely exotic plinks of the cimbalom — has the plushness of an antique carpet.
    — Justin Davidson, Vulture, 13 May 2025
  • There’s also an experimental score by Daniel Blumberg made of bangs and piano plinks and noises that sound like a dozen balloons screaming.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024
Definition of plink
Noun
  • Construction vehicles beeped and chugged, and the intermittent buzz of saws mixed with the clang of heavy equipment.
    — Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Aug. 2026
  • The soundtrack—by the frequent Hans Zimmer collaborator David Fleming—is a delight, a polyphonic mood board of ghost-clangs, spooky bassoons, lyrical electro-motifs, and sighing sea themes.
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 20 July 2026
Definition of clang
Noun
  • Owner complaints around the current-generation Tundra have included interior rattles and occasional trim or electronic issues.
    — Josh Max, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2026
  • Stuttering lines, on the left, jerking up and down, denote the rattle of guns; on the right, the lines are all but flat, as silence descends.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of rattle

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