Get to know Peals better with 9 real example sentences, the meaning.
Peals meaning
plural of peal
Using Peals
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of peal
- In the example corpus, peals often appears in combinations such as: peals of, with peals, of peals.
Context around Peals
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 4 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 9 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Peals
- In this selection, "peals" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, oldest, thunder and signifies stand out and add context to how "peals" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include dumbstruck as peals of laughter and follows are peals of thunder. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "peals" sits close to words such as aakash, aanholt and aardwolf, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with peals
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The ringing of peals signifies a time of rejoicing, such as a wedding. (13 words)
An extended ringing of peals or "changes" conveys a time of great civic celebration. (14 words)
What follows are "peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning, and an earthquake" (8:5). (15 words)
The duo had hosts Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid in peals of laughter as they chatted about how they are finding lockdown, joked that the secret to longlife is 'plenty of sex' and also admitted to a crush on Jason Statham. (41 words)
The video features a human jester — a Judy in fabulous green and orange makeup — who waves about a puppet of Punch and fills the gallery with peals of what easily passes as feminist laughter directed at great-man art history. (40 words)
Theophany A theophany is a manifestation (appearance) of a god – in the Bible, an appearance of the God of Israel, accompanied by storms – the earth trembles, the mountains quake, the heavens pour rain, thunder peals and lightning flashes. (38 words)
Example sentences (9)
The duo had hosts Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid in peals of laughter as they chatted about how they are finding lockdown, joked that the secret to longlife is 'plenty of sex' and also admitted to a crush on Jason Statham.
He gibbers and howls and lets loose with peals of maniacal laughter and speaks entirely in broad catchphrases.
The video features a human jester — a Judy in fabulous green and orange makeup — who waves about a puppet of Punch and fills the gallery with peals of what easily passes as feminist laughter directed at great-man art history.
An extended ringing of peals or "changes" conveys a time of great civic celebration.
Diderot, to whom (says the story) all mathematics was gibberish, stood dumbstruck as peals of laughter erupted from the court.
It has been claimed that St Peter's three bells, cast in about 1350, have one of the oldest peals in England.
Theophany A theophany is a manifestation (appearance) of a god – in the Bible, an appearance of the God of Israel, accompanied by storms – the earth trembles, the mountains quake, the heavens pour rain, thunder peals and lightning flashes.
The ringing of peals signifies a time of rejoicing, such as a wedding.
What follows are "peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning, and an earthquake" (8:5).
Common combinations with peals
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- peals of 5×
- with peals 2×
- of peals 2×