banging

Example Sentences

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Around noon, on the building’s packed fifth floor, bells began bonging irregularly from surround-sound speakers.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 7, 2020

In a nondescript building on a road by the airport, there’s a world of binging, bonging, clacking examples of coin-operated joy.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 8, 2016

The regional schools became meatpacking plants, or Play-Doh fun factories, squeezing out supposedly educated human beings, marching them around from class to class — bells bonging, punishments escalating, homework being loaded on.

From New York Times • Sep. 7, 2016

The snare crashed with a digital fizz, the tom sounded like an 808, the bass drum like a mallet bonging on the side of a grand piano.

From The Verge • Jul. 19, 2015

I was out of my chair and limping through the kitchen before the clock stopped bonging.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly