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Example sentences for "pealed"

Lexicographically close words:
peaked; peaking; peaks; peaky; peal; pealing; peals; peanut; peanuts; pear
  1. These boys of the Wolf Patrol had become so accustomed to depending on their energetic leader when trouble threatened that this cry pealed from the lips of Billy Worth as naturally as he would eat his supper, given half a chance.

  2. At a given signal the rocks swarmed with men in white uniforms, and as a bugle pealed out, hearty cheers announced that the navy had sprung a tremendous surprise upon the army.

  3. The assembly was sounded, and the church bells pealed out the alarm.

  4. The mass rushed forward; the fire again pealed forth; a shriek pierced the din of all the battle, and the leading files halt.

  5. While the hubbub of excited voices mingled with the cries of water-sellers, another blast of the trumpet pealed out, and, in a moment, a gigantic bull rushed across the ring.

  6. The roar of the multitude was deafening, and shouts of laughter pealed in the air.

  7. It swept on for a yard or two, switched back, paused for a few seconds, and then began to wave wildly to and fro, seemingly by way of a signal, while a solitary gunshot pealed out upon the air.

  8. The organ pealed forth as mass ended, the throng slowly filed out, and the sisters paced through the courtway back into the brown convent walls.

  9. The noon-hour pealed from the brazen throats of many bells, and the numerous hoarse whistles of the steam-boats called the unheeded luncheon-time to the levee workers.

  10. Again the cannon from the battery and the shipping pealed forth their thunder.

  11. And from the clouds a favourable voice of thunder pealed in answer; and there came bright lightning flashes bursting through.

  12. The chimes on the library pealed out nine o'clock, reminding him of his work half done, yet the shadow of engulfing sorrow and loss hung over him.

  13. Those meetings had been to Julia Cloud very real meetings with her Christ; and now, as the evening bells pealed out, her heart leaped to meet and answer the call.

  14. To the people he spoke good tidings and exhortations; to lordly sinners he pealed out stern rebukes.

  15. Both haunted the desert, both pealed out thunders of rebuke.

  16. Handel has gloriously given the spirit of it in the crash of triumph with which that last word is pealed out in his oratorio.

  17. I pealed forth in one faint shout, 'On Bravo, on!

  18. The thunder pealed along the vault of heaven--the lightning appeared to rend the firmament.

  19. The brazen voices of the church bells pealed out high above all the other clamour.

  20. The bells pealed out to welcome her as she neared the portals, and an ear-splitting explosion of a monster rocket, with a tempest-rain of sparks, announced the instant of her entrance beneath the chiselled arch.

  21. And in that instant the great bells overhead began to ring, and all the bells of all Bilbao pealed with them, and the people waked and came running to the rescue of Our Lady, and the robbers were put to death.

  22. As all the fiends, from heaven that fell, Had pealed the banner cry of hell!

  23. Again a pause, and then again The trumpets pealed sonorous, And "Yankee Doodle" was the strain To which the shore gave chorus.

  24. All of a sudden, ere rose the sun, Pealed on the silence the opening gun-- A little white puff of smoke there came, And anon the valley was wreathed in flame.

  25. Had I been there with sword in hand, And fifty Camerons by, That day through high Dunedin's streets Had pealed the slogan-cry.

  26. Another hand thy sword shall wield, Another hand the standard wave, Till from the trumpet's mouth is pealed The blast of triumph o'er thy grave.

  27. No sooner did they arrive there than the bells of the churches pealed out.

  28. He now ordered the bell to be rung and, as soon as its notes pealed out, started; followed at once by the crowd in the village, without any sort of order or regularity.

  29. With great festoons of flowers They hung it, and their own heads did they wreathe, While answering each other pealed the flutes.

  30. Earth quaked beneath her feet: dread blasts of fire Flamed from her mouth: her voice pealed thunder-like Kindling strong men.

  31. The earth Rang to the tramp of onset; pealed the cheer From man to man; swift closed the fronts of war.

  32. Ever pealed Weird roarings of their voices round its vaults.

  33. Then those Divine Ones round Achilles' corse Pealed forth with one voice from immortal lips A lamentation.

  34. Wild echoes pealed from Ida forest-palled, And from the plain, the ships, the boundless sea.

  35. So feasted they through Troy, and in their midst Loud pealed the flutes and pipes: on every hand Were song and dance, laughter and cries confused Of banqueters beside the meats and wine.

  36. Pealed his shout Dreadly, with courage filling them of Troy, Scaring their foes from biding the red fray.

  37. And overhead the rapturous bird-voice pealed forth a perfect paean of victory.

  38. With violence he strode to the bell and pealed it vigorously.

  39. The organ pealed forth; and the dean and chapter, preceded by some of the bedesmen, were entering from the opposite door.

  40. Lance possessed a full deep rich bass voice of exceptionally fine quality; and as the words of the song pealed through the room, a breathless silence was maintained by his strange audience,--the silence of surprise and delight.

  41. The sermon was a dry dissertation to which no one listened, to judge by the number of sleepers in the pews, who woke with a start when the organ pealed forth the welcome tidings that the service was over.

  42. A couple of heralds rode in front; and a long trumpet-cry pealed out, was caught, echoed, and thrown back by the crowding walls of the palace.

  43. The one thing that he needed was to be 'strong and courageous'; and over and over again in this chapter you will find that injunction pealed into his ears.

  44. So movement by movement the gorgeous drama was enacted; the murmuring of the crowds died to a stillness that was but one wordless prayer as the tiny White Disc rose between the white hands, and the thin angelic music pealed in the dome.

  45. And above all the voice pealed on--and the thin hands blanched to whiteness strained from the wide and sumptuous sleeves as if to reach across the sanctuary itself.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pealed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.