ring a bell
Frequency: 9.025.0 per million words
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Examples (10)
- Does that name ring a bell with you?
- Please ring the bell for service if you need anything.
- I've heard the title before, but it didn't ring any bells.
- The church sexton rang the bell to announce the wedding.
- Maybe seeing his face will ring a bell for the witness.
- Someone is insistently ringing the doorbell.
- His description of the place rings a faint bell, but I can't quite place it.
- I taught my dog to ring a bell when it needs to go outside.
- They rang the school bell five minutes early to dismiss the students.
- The story didn't ring a bell until she mentioned the protagonist's name.