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Smith’s $5,000 donation proved a savvy investment: He owns two brownstones in Brooklyn today, Lee notes, with a peal of laughter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2025

For, in case you missed it, a peal of what may or may not have been the archangel Gabriel’s horn cut through the noise a few days ago signaling, ominous, that it’s time.

From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2023

The bells of Westminster Abbey will peal at 1 p.m.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 8, 2023

Meanwhile in Edinburgh's west end, a peal of bells rang out at St Mary's Episcopal cathedral, which has Scotland's only twelve bell church tower.

From BBC ● May 6, 2023

For example, if the story speaks of a bell chiming, play a bell peal on the glockenspiels for older children’s response, or more minimally, hit a triangle.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

Far from the subtlety required before a camera, her powerful voice and exaggerated gestures fill the space -- and draw peals of laughter.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2025

Hours were marked by peals of screams following every uncovered worm wriggling in the corn silks, and each of us proudly showing off our inky fingertips from pressing out purple hull peas from their pods.

From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2025

Her youthful peals of laughter notwithstanding, McDermott is a veteran novelist, and the generational divide she mines in “Absolution,” a novel that one advance reviewer has called “her masterpiece,” is dead-serious.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2023

The auditorium, which had been filled with excited shouts and peals of laughter from students just moments before, gradually grew quiet and still.

From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2023

Moments later the courtyard erupted into a melee of flung snowballs, scurrying children, and peals of laughter.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart

Sirens blared, horns honked, and church bells pealed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026

Westminster Abbey's bells then pealed 80 times to remember the years since the first VE Day.

From BBC ● May 8, 2025

Another night, Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline,” pealed out.

From New York Times ● Jun. 14, 2020

After prayer and reading of portions of the Episcopal service, the organ pealed and chimes rung as the large congregation left the church.

From Seattle Times ● May 8, 2019

Then whoops and shouts pealed from every quarter, and howls and even a trombone blasting.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

Ms. Oropesa’s limpid, flexible soprano brought a heart-tugging vulnerability to Elvira, and her pealing coloratura was both accurate and expressive.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026

It’s no surprise that his most iconic stint in consumerism, the “Tickle Me Elmo” doll, capitalized on his pealing giggle.

From Salon ● Feb. 3, 2024

The handover of the cathedral took many by surprise - an OCU priest, Vasyl Rudnytskyi, looked stunned as he walked towards the building’s gates amid the deafening pealing of bells.

From Reuters ● Jan. 7, 2023

Church bells which fell silent more than 70 years ago are pealing once more following a £79,000 restoration.

From BBC ● Nov. 27, 2021

The laughter is like pealing bells that don’t need a hand to pull on the rope; it just goes on and on until you are weak with it.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison