How to Use peal in a Sentence

peal

1 of 2 noun
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  • Bass asked at the UCLA rally, setting off a peal of cheers.
    — Michael R. Blood, ajc, 8 Nov. 2022
  • At the top of Section 181, the drum is as startling as a peal of thunder from a clear blue sky.
    — Bill Livingston, cleveland, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Once the president, the clients, and a ragtag of press had settled around the fountain a peal of bells rang out to mark the start of the show.
    — Luke Leitch, Vogue, 8 July 2017
  • Then a peal of thunder crackled through the heavens over the festival site.
    — al, 20 May 2022
  • Its color ranges from an amber as clear as the peal of a bell to the bold gold of a questionable urine specimen.
    — Troy Patterson, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2019
  • The gaping silence rings louder than any peal of laughter.
    — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 3 May 2016
  • Now at my own table, the taste rings with the familiar peal of chiles and herbs; the flavor is almost nostalgic.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2020
  • Together, these forces gathered strength, peaked, and faded, yielding to the high peals of a lone basset horn.
    — Zachary Lewis, cleveland.com, 12 Jan. 2018
  • His quiet, mischievous sense of humor was always greeted with peals of laughter from those in on the joke.
    — courant.com, 30 Jan. 2018
  • Then the bittersweet peal of her mother’s bell would beckon her home for dinner.
    — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Feb. 2021
  • That's when demand is at its peal and stadiums as well as third-parties charge as much fans are willing to pay.
    — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 9 Sep. 2022
  • That briefest of teaser shots launched an armada of memes, and one of the most impressive responses mixes that porg peal.
    — Michael Cavna, kansascity, 12 Oct. 2017
  • For raising a joy up in me that bursts forth in uninhibited raucous peals of laughter.
    — Eric Todisco, PEOPLE.com, 24 Dec. 2019
  • Inside the theater, the audience, mostly silent just a moment ago, breaks out into peals of laughter.
    — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 14 July 2019
  • Following three peals of the ship’s alarm (long, short, long), the crew members assembled on the foredeck for their first ever nighttime rescue.
    — Hereward Holland, National Geographic, 12 Sep. 2016
  • Following three peals of the ship’s alarm (long, short, long), the crew members assembled on the foredeck for their first ever nighttime rescue.
    — Hereward Holland, National Geographic, 12 Sep. 2016
  • And yet, the same peal of individualism that rang in his predecessor’s words still echoes in his.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 9 June 2021
  • Nor will there be a celebratory peal of bells at Westminster Abbey, as the church where the queen was married and crowned is currently closed.
    — Stephanie Toone, ajc, 21 Apr. 2020
  • In Game 4 Monday night, James drifted in an 8-footer in the third quarter, on which the ball flew over the corner of the backboard and landed in the net with a whispering swish that brought a peal of thunder from the crowd.
    — Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 7 May 2018
  • Orliński’s cadenza began on an A, his voice rising like a peal of bells up to a high F and then descending, with a trill, to the F an octave lower.
    — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 15 July 2019
  • The peal delivered a solemn message: Another person had passed away.
    — Sofia Krusmark, The Arizona Republic, 29 July 2021
  • On a visit, a group of women played poker around a plastic table, their banter breaking out into peals of laughter.
    — Aurora Almendral, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2020
  • Each peal of the bell pierced the air, then subsided into a ringing vibration that lasted several seconds.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 July 2019
  • The flow, according to Finley, a civil engineer by training, begins when a customer pushes open the front door, which has a strip of metal on its top edge that raps a sharp peal from a hanging cow bell.
    — Kevin Spear, OrlandoSentinel.com, 12 Jan. 2018
  • In her role presiding over the Senate, Crouch reprimanded members of the public in the gallery for the rogue comment and occasional peal of sarcastic laughter.
    — Arika Herron, The Indianapolis Star, 30 July 2022
  • Arranging themselves a few to each piano, these interlopers began to press the keys, too, for a climactic effect that eventually matched the rich, chaotic peal of a full carillon of church bells.
    — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2018
  • But recognizing the drummer’s skill takes nothing away from Green, a vocal mastermind with a unicorn of a falsetto, a grainy, galvanizing mid-range, and the ability to blurt like a horn or wobble like an organ or peal like a church bell.
    — Elias Leight, Rolling Stone, 29 Dec. 2021
  • But a new, exhaustive boxed set transports listeners to the real, unedited Woodstock: every blaring stage announcement about the dangers of brown acid, peal of stage feedback and whir of helicopter blades restored.
    — Morgan Enos, Billboard, 2 Aug. 2019
  • Each swami took a microphone and addressed the crowd for several minutes, some sending the attendees into peals of laughter with what sounded like standup-comedy patter.
    — Jonathan M. Pitts, baltimoresun.com, 4 July 2017
  • Boris Godunov, the regent suspected by some of complicity, crushed the incipient rebellion by ordering the execution of 200 people who answered the bell’s peals and the banishment of the rest.
    — Steven Lee Myers, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2017
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peal

2 of 2 verb
  • But this time the guitarist peals a blistering line that seems to run the head melody backward.
    — John Kaag, WSJ, 14 July 2017
  • Winds rose, lightning flickered and thunder crashed and pealed as rain poured down.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2019
  • That rang a familiar alarm bell in my head that didn't stop pealing throughout JeffBo's time on the stage.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 18 Oct. 2017
  • The crowd burst into cheers and applause as the last faded away, and bells at nearby Westminster Abbey pealed a noisy farewell to their neighbor.
    — Jill Lawless, The Seattle Times, 21 Aug. 2017
  • A bell peals calling the faithful to gather under an open-air Tabernacle in front of a stage bedecked with green bunting.
    — Jill Yesko, baltimoresun.com, 15 Aug. 2017
  • The trumpets and horns, facing off on opposite sides of the ensemble, created an energetic, pealing, antiphonal effect in the final hornpipe.
    — Elaine Schmidt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2018
  • But this time the guitarist peals a blistering line that seems to run the head melody backward.
    — John Kaag, WSJ, 14 July 2017
  • Winds rose, lightning flickered and thunder crashed and pealed as rain poured down.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2019
  • That rang a familiar alarm bell in my head that didn't stop pealing throughout JeffBo's time on the stage.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 18 Oct. 2017
  • The crowd burst into cheers and applause as the last faded away, and bells at nearby Westminster Abbey pealed a noisy farewell to their neighbor.
    — Jill Lawless, The Seattle Times, 21 Aug. 2017
  • A bell peals calling the faithful to gather under an open-air Tabernacle in front of a stage bedecked with green bunting.
    — Jill Yesko, baltimoresun.com, 15 Aug. 2017
  • The trumpets and horns, facing off on opposite sides of the ensemble, created an energetic, pealing, antiphonal effect in the final hornpipe.
    — Elaine Schmidt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2018

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