Example Sentences

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Big Ben had been chiming since 1859, but this was the first time that its distinctive "bong" was heard outside of its immediate vicinity in Westminster.

From BBC • Dec. 30, 2023

The bell that had been chiming inside her fell silent.

From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater

We lingered before starting for church till long after the bells had been chiming, but neither of them came.

From The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young by Various

The sun had set; the evening bells that had been chiming were hushed.

From The Sand-Hills of Jutland by Bushby, Mrs. (Anna S.)

Aloft there the clock began to chime out the eight notes it had chimed, at noon and at midnight, through his boyhood, and had been chiming faithfully ever since.

From Hocken and Hunken by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir