How to Use chime in a Sentence

chime

1 of 2 noun
Definition of chimenext
Synonyms for chimenext
  • Both the alarm and the minute repeater chime on the same two gongs.
    — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 10 Nov. 2023
  • They are draw out with a file in order to hone the chords of the chime.
    — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 24 Jan. 2022
  • For any money spell, a green chime candle is the go-to.
    — Aliza Pelto, Women's Health, 14 Apr. 2023
  • There’s a steady wind stirring on that cloudy June day, and the chimes on the farm store tinkle.
    — Rachael Moeller Gorman, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Sending them up one by one, each chime added to the crescendo.
    — Kim Hyatt, Star Tribune, 23 July 2021
  • Even the crown and chime activator on the case sides are gem set.
    — Carol Besler, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2022
  • One indicator on the dial is for the time, and the other is for the chime.
    — Carol Besler, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2022
  • At first, the car makes an audible chime, and the steering wheel lights turn red.
    — Daniel Golson, The Verge, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The sound of Washington might be the cheery chime of a closing Metro door or the strident chant of a protest march.
    — Washington Post, 20 July 2021
  • As a memento, Mark took the chimes that hung by my mother’s back door.
    — Teresa M. Hanafin, BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2023
  • Here’s the mallet that makes her guitar chime like a dulcimer.
    — Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2021
  • Powell held her hands up to her face as the familiar chimes played.
    — Bracey Harris, NBC News, 18 Nov. 2023
  • With each cellphone chime, the day got a little crazier.
    — Arkansas Online, 17 June 2021
  • It’s paired with an indoor chime that’ll alert owners when someone is at the door.
    — Jacob Kastrenakes, The Verge, 11 Jan. 2021
  • With a chime her high school crush, Matt (John Earl Jelks), becomes her husband.
    — New York Times, 10 Apr. 2022
  • Keep in mind that’s not necessarily when the chime goes off.
    — Becky Krystal, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2023
  • On one block, the chime of an ice cream truck competed with the rumble of a helicopter overhead.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 7 June 2020
  • It is believed that eating one grape per clock chime will bring the person good luck in the new year, according to NPR.
    — USA TODAY, 1 Jan. 2024
  • Riders will see a green check and hear a chime when their payment is accepted, DART said.
    — Dallas News, 21 Sep. 2021
  • The hands will turn every minute, the chime will ring every hour, and a gentle tick-tick-tick will fill a quiet room with the sound of passing time.
    — Dan Horn, The Enquirer, 16 June 2022
  • Occasionally the chime of the church bells can still be startling.
    — Stephen Castle, New York Times, 11 July 2023
  • The tram rattled along College Street, passing dozens of book stalls, and announcing itself with the quaint chime of a bell.
    — New York Times, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Throughout the day, soft chimes signify when Ms. A has given a student a point.
    — USA Today, 12 June 2023
  • The quiet of my night on call was interrupted by the familiar chime of my pager.
    — Douglas G. Adler, Discover Magazine, 14 Dec. 2021
  • Security cameras announce when a car is pulling up, and the doors have chimes.
    — Wendy Grossman Kantor, Peoplemag, 7 Nov. 2023
  • The reminder lights and chimes installed in many newer vehicles advise drivers to check the back seat when the car is turned off.
    — Michael Levenson, New York Times, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The crystal-clear chimes are, of course, delightful to the ear but also allow the wearer to interpret time in a unique way.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 28 June 2023
  • Her first notes stretched out atop a shimmer of percussion and a skein of strings, their attack marked by icy chimes and spindly xylophones.
    — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 9 May 2023
  • Each chime is supposed to root out a worldly passion, such as anger, suspicion or lust.
    — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 25 Oct. 2022
  • The large red-hand graphic stayed displayed, and the gap in chimes lengthened slightly to four-second intervals.
    — Jim Resnick, Ars Technica, 20 Jan. 2024
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chime

2 of 2 verb
  • The music and the mood chimed well together.
  • And there’s a clock in the background that chimes eight times.
    — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2023
  • So, what happens if the time changes while the piece is still chiming?
    — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 24 Oct. 2023
  • The death notice arrived softly one Tuesday in April, to an email alert that chimed like a chapel bell.
    — Gabe Cohn, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Those wedding bells are getting ready to chime for Gwen Stefani!
    — Anna Chan, Billboard, 11 June 2021
  • Although, it may be better referred to as a walk-off song, chiming out after a player finds the back of the net.
    — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Top off your design with accents like a chiming mantel clock, found in many Parisian homes.
    — Charlotte Observer, 1 Feb. 2024
  • It’s seen from behind — its bare bottom chiming with O’Reilly’s.
    — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2023
  • That attitude chimes with the current mood of wanting to take joy from jewelry, rather than hiding it in the vault.
    — Paul Croughton, Robb Report, 5 Nov. 2023
  • In this Breton town, at the crossroads between the Vilaine and Oust rivers, flower boxes line the bridges and a Gothic-era bell tower chimes on the hour.
    — Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 July 2023
  • The clock will not chime for several months while it’s being refurbished.
    — Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 26 July 2021
  • That phone would chime again — this time from a string of LeBron James tweets — in response to the vague news about Leonard that has the league’s most influential people fearing the worst.
    — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2021
  • The three crowns wind the watch, set the time and date with the central crown and select the chiming mode (grande sonnerie, petite sonnerie or silence mode).
    — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The song opens with chiming guitar, travelogue lyrics and birdsong melody.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The pair’s fairytale wedding ceremony was also showcased in the video as a chorus group sang outside of the White House and bells chimed.
    — Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 20 Nov. 2023
  • The bell schedule has changed since, but this year the bells are set to chime on several royal birthdays, as well as on the first anniversary of Queen Elizabeth’s death.
    — Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 July 2023
  • This self-winding movement chimes on demand, on two classic gongs, the hour, quarters, and minutes elapsed since the last quarter all by a simple press of the slide-piece set into the left flank of the case.
    — Cait Bazemore, Robb Report, 15 Nov. 2023
  • For the unversed, classic minute repeaters chime the hour, quarter hours, and minutes, but the decimal variation strikes tones for the hours, the tens of minutes, and the single minutes.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 28 June 2023
  • To find true love, pluck a hair, seal it in a baggie, place the baggie inside a dedicated mailer and wait for your phone to chime with an update on your perfect match.
    — New York Times, 21 Apr. 2021
  • The doorman still ushers guests into the grand, three-story lobby, where the famous grandfather clock has been chiming since the hotel opened.
    — Katie Lockhart, Travel + Leisure, 26 Nov. 2023
  • On Monday, the iconic bell of Elizabeth's Tower will chime once at 9 a.m. before its hammer is covered by a piece of leather to muffle its strikes.
    — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2022
  • On demand, the wearer can activate the slide on the side of the case to engage the striking mechanism (hammers against gongs that run along the periphery of the movement) to chime the hours, quarter hours and minutes.
    — Roberta Naas, Forbes, 22 Apr. 2022
  • After a little time had passed, my phone began to chime with reminders of my waiting invitation.
    — Alana Evans, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2023
  • These complications included five chiming modes (one of them being an alarm striking the times and dates on demand).
    — Nick Scott, Robb Report, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Unlike conventional minute repeaters, which chime the hours, quarter hours, and minutes, this one sounds the hours, 10-minute intervals, and minutes.
    — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 10 Dec. 2023
  • After all, his classic tailoring has shades of Armani and Saint Laurent, and there’s no one whose somber style chimes more with the melancholy, fatalistic mood of the moment than his.
    — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2023
  • After the motorcade departed and traffic flowed once more on South Ocean Boulevard, Bethesda’s bells chimed.
    — Kristina Webb, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Features in the new areas include a crab trap-rope feature, Alpha Tower, slides, a bridge, chimes along the sidewalk and the wheelchair-accessible merry-go-round.
    — Sue Kiesewetter, The Enquirer, 3 Sep. 2023
  • The barge carried acoustic equipment and was festooned with fluorescent light sticks and suspended jetsam that clinked and chimed.
    — Ben McGrath, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Her cuts, though, do not actually change the deeper structure, and in terms of the language, her additions always chime with elements already in the Shakespeare.
    — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 9 Aug. 2021

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