peal 1 of 2

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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peal

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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
Church bells ring briefly each quarter hour to sound time, their melodic peals blending with ocean breezes. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Apr. 2026 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 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
  • Mindy Miranda said her 8-year-old daughter was in her third-grade classroom upstairs when shots rang out.
    — Kaila Nichols, NBC news, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The tables were draped in salmon-pink tablecloths and ringed with bright red chairs, and each plate had a napkin folded into a swan.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 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
  • Bruce Blakeman, the Republican challenger in the gubernatorial race, also chimed on Mamdani's statement.
    — Jesse Zanger, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026
  • The loud-mouthed cameos from ex-soccer players Zlatan Ibrahimović and Eric Cantona in Nike’s World Cup hero film Rip the Script were indicative of this, chiming with an older, more arrogant vision of Nike seen in the ’90s and the aughts.
    — Joe Bobowicz, Vogue, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of chime
Noun
  • This guy might steal because the pitcher is such a ding-dong at getting the ball to the plate, for example.
    — Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 28 Sep. 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
  • The streamlining of buying and the urgent need to up the commercial ante is not the death knell for runways, though.
    — Joe Bobowicz, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Beaumarchais’s Le Mariage de Figaro (1778) sounded the death knell of the feudal droit du seigneur.
    — Simon Callow, The New York Review of Books, 19 Sep. 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
  • When Ilia first meets Altman, there’s not even the faintest clang of an alarm bell.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 7 Oct. 2026
  • The Cage felt like a useful spot to work out any resentments lingering in your psyche, all the old grievances dissipating with the clang of aluminum on cowhide.
    — Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026
Definition of clang
Noun
  • His favorite technique was to take a fold-up chair in the woods, get in a blowdown, rattle antlers during the rut, and wait for a trophy buck to come along.
    — Colin Moore, Outdoor Life, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Her first hit item was a baby rattle shaped like a chicken drumstick that was sold wrapped in cellophane, much like a meat-counter purchase.
    — Leigh-Ann Jackson, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of rattle

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