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Example sentences for "bell rang"

  • He whistled as he dressed, and when the breakfast-bell rang he went downstairs feeling at peace with himself and all the world.

  • He had not done blubbering even yet, when the prayer-bell rang.

  • By a strong effort he repressed the rising passion which the fumes of drink had caused, and flinging himself on his chair, refused to speak again, or even to go down stairs when the prayer-bell rang.

  • We had exhausted the crocodiles, and begun with the alligators, when the garden-bell rang.

  • A moment later, the door-bell rang again, and Katharine reappeared, having left her purse on a chair.

  • Accordingly, Katharine did nothing but scrub one of her circles an intense black with her pencil, in the midst of which process the telephone-bell rang, and she left the room to answer it.

  • The supper-bell rang, and a horde of hungry girls poured into the dining-room, but through all the cheerful clatter of dishes and hum of voices, Lloyd kept her dignified silence toward Betty unbroken.

  • They had barely time to lay their bundles on Magnolia's bed when the supper-bell rang, and they ran down to the dining-room.

  • Then the supper-bell rang, and Mittie heard no more.

  • As he spoke the church-bell rang out on the warm spring air.

  • Fortunately for the future welfare of the Morning Glory Club the telephone bell rang at that moment, and Mrs. Jones hastened to answer its summons.

  • When the door-bell rang a moment later Will answered its summons.

  • When the telephone-bell rang a moment after, it was to confirm the tidings given before.

  • The noise the newspaper-sellers made outside had evidently wakened Mr. Sleuth, for his landlady hadn't been in the kitchen ten minutes before his bell rang.

  • Chandler was still sitting there when Mr. Sleuth's bell rang.

  • And exactly at four o'clock the door-bell rang, and they began to come.

  • I followed him as soon as we had put on our clothes, and then we hurried to the row of basins and towels, barely completing our ablutions when the bell rang, and not looking so very much the worse.

  • The breakfast-bell rang, and we went in, but that morning meal did not fulfil Mercer's prophecy and carry off my ailment, for I could not touch a bit.

  • And Tom was soon deep in Arthur's goods and chattels, all new and good enough for a fifth-form boy, and hardly thought of his friends outside till the prayer-bell rang.

  • Then the quarter to ten struck, and the prayer-bell rang.

  • Miss Dorcas had her chair on one side, and Miss Betsey on the other, and between them there was a chair drawn up for Jack, where he had been sitting at the time the door-bell rang.

  • Eva was sitting, a little tired with her strenuous exertions, contemplating her finished arrangement with satisfaction, when the door-bell rang, and Alice came in.

  • Just as she was busy arranging her flowers, the door-bell rang, and Jim Fellows came in with a basket of fruit.

  • As she did so, a bell rang up on the campus.

  • Just as the dinner-bell rang, Betty appeared, looking rather tired and pale.

  • When the dinner-bell rang, Eleanor pulled herself together and started down-stairs.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bell rang" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    belles lettres; belligerent powers; belligerent rights; bells were; belly white; bottom land; certain places; consumer durables; customs officers; elder sister; employ them; feel the; get you; long trip; luck would; more regular; motion made; natural rights; other duties; should observe; think how; till when; upper tail; visit them; warm myself; what direction