I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bell chimes (= it rings a certain number of times, in order to tell you the time of day )
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The bells began to chime, calling people to church.
wind chimes
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A clock chimed six.
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Across the valley, church bells were chiming.
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Church bells throughout France chimed to mark the occasion.
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I heard a clock chime softly in the next door room.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Inside the business school chimed the melody that meant the change of lessons.
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Others chimed in, saying those who have it made are pulling up the ladder on those less fortunate.
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St Clement's clock chimed half-past nine as he reached the beginning of Champney Road.
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The great bells of the Immaculate Conception chimed the hour.
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They join our line of thought, and soon are chiming in with what they think the author may have meant.
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This last letter did not chime with the rest.
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Wrong, wrong, wrong, chime the economists.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
wind
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Bones are also put to practical use, strung together to make a kind of aeolian harp or wind chime .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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the chime of the doorbell
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The shop door opened with a chime .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Application Tell the students that chimes can be made by using a metal spoon instead of a coat hanger.
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Past the pub, and the noise of laughter and the music of a jukebox and the bell chime of gaming machines.
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Still Ralph heard every word of every speech as though it were the crystalline note of an ice chime .
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The chimes reverberated through the silent building.
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The thoughts of solitude are heard in solitude, and have an inward chime that public thoughts must lack.
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There was a whirring sound, then the clock's chime marked a quarter to midnight.
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To be part of that melody of infinite chimes of light!