Example Sentences

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So they have been chiming in: Friedrich Merz, Emmanuel Macron, even the U.K.’s beleaguered Keir Starmer.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026

It seems to have been chiming ever since I came to bed.

From In Honour's Cause A Tale of the Days of George the First by Speed, Lancelot

Somewhere in the back of his mind bells have been chiming, and he has not known enough to call them bells.

From Contrary Mary by Bailey, Temple