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  • noun Plural form of chiming.

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Examples

  • I take the time to listen to the inner chimings of my mind, and as I do in the morning, I use breathing exercises to unwind and quiet the chatter.

    Zippora Karz: How to Relax: Letting Yourself Unwind Zippora Karz 2010

  • Into the centre of the Veil the light drew itself, grew into an intolerable brightness — and with a storm of tinklings, a tempest of crystalline notes, a tumult of tiny chimings, through it sped — the Shining One!

    The Moon Pool 2004

  • And when she spoke the golden voice held more than returning echoes of the far-away, faint chimings.

    The Metal Monster 2004

  • I clapped my hands to my ears as a cacophony of high-pitched noises—which sounded like chimings of bells as incarnated in the throat of children—filled the room.

    Sir Apropos of Nothing PETER DAVID 2001

  • I clapped my hands to my ears as a cacophony of high-pitched noises—which sounded like chimings of bells as incarnated in the throat of children—filled the room.

    Sir Apropos of Nothing PETER DAVID 2001

  • I clapped my hands to my ears as a cacophony of high-pitched noises—which sounded like chimings of bells as incarnated in the throat of children—filled the room.

    Sir Apropos of Nothing PETER DAVID 2001

  • Their flutings and chimings blended with the boom of wind, the thrum of the cords that bound him.

    Three Worlds to Conquer Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1964

  • Their flutings and chimings blended with the boom of wind, the thrum of the cords that bound him.

    Three Worlds To Conquer Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1964

  • Sometimes, under the warm clear darkness, the noises of field and earth swelled to a kind of soft thunder: his quickened ears heard a thousand small outcries contributing to the awful energy of the world -- faint chimings and whistlings in the grass, and endless flutter, rustle, and whirr.

    Where the Blue Begins Christopher Morley 1923

  • Into the centre of the Veil the light drew itself, grew into an intolerable brightness -- and with a storm of tinklings, a tempest of crystalline notes, a tumult of tiny chimings, through it sped -- the Shining One!

    The Moon Pool 1919

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