bell

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bell
Verb
  • However, Ultraman is simple-minded and purely exists to follow Luthor's directions, down to the exact attack moves his handler shouts into his earpiece during fights.
    EW.com, EW.com, 14 July 2025
  • Most of those shouting questions at Tatis for 45 minutes were doing so in Spanish.
    Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 July 2025
Verb
  • When this resulted in severe shortages of more than 200 medications, including drugs used to treat cancer and deliver emergency care, Congress howled.
    Arthur L. Kellermann, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
  • Criticisms of budget cuts without budget solutions is simply howling at the moon.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 8 July 2025
Verb
  • As heavy rain triggered flash flood warnings along the Guadalupe River in Texas Hill Country early Friday, the small unincorporated town of Comfort had something its neighbors upriver in Kerr County didn’t: wailing sirens urging residents to flee before the water could swallow them.
    Jon Schuppe, NBC news, 8 July 2025
  • Another video starts with the sounds of a woman wailing behind a truck in West L.A.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2025
Verb
  • The inadvertent launch of the saucer was caught on videotape, as was the panic after Falcon’s older brother, Bradford, yelled that the 6-year-old could not be located.
    Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 18 July 2025
  • On July 5, 2025, Aaron came into my townhouse with his father and got within inches of my face and began yelling at me … with his right hand violently hit the bill of my hat with the back of his hand, which caused my hat to fly off my head.
    Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 18 July 2025
Verb
  • Cohost Mark Consuelos teed up the moment during Tuesday morning's host chat, which shifted to cover the topic of why exhaustive marathons often make people — both participants and spectators — cry.
    EW.com, EW.com, 15 July 2025
  • Citing a police report, Fox 35 and the News-Journal reported that Sullivan was waiting outside for Williams to show up to the home with her food delivery when her baby began to cry inside the home.
    Sean Neumann, People.com, 15 July 2025
Verb
  • Sirens blared, car horns honked and church bells pealed.
    Si Liberman, Sun Sentinel, 7 May 2025
  • After the funeral, St. Peter's great bells pealed in mourning.
    Kim Hjelmgaard, USA Today, 26 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The film earned a hugely enthusiastic seven-minute standing ovation and, in perhaps a Cannes first, saw Skarsgard hug a man dressed in a gimp mask as the audience whooped and cheered.
    Ellise Shafer, Variety, 18 May 2025
  • But both agree that people were whooping it up during the screening.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 15 May 2025
Verb
  • There was a big group assembled on the other side of the street, huddled together under the orange cone of a street light, clapping and hollering and stamping their feet.
    Clare Sestanovich, New Yorker, 13 July 2025
  • The kids are running around, hollering and screaming, having a good ‘ole time, and Frankie Beverly and Maze are blaring through the speakers.
    Essence, Essence, 16 June 2025
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“Bell.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bell. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.

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