1.   He then began striking the bells with his face, producing a beautiful melody on the carillon.

2.   Suddenly, rushing forward to strike a bell, the armless man tripped and plunged headlong out of the belfry window to his death in the street below.

3.   The clock registered time by striking a bell, and that act of noisily striking or hitting was also expressed in the verb to clock.

4.   Van de Wetering likes to start his day by striking a bell in front of the statue and then lighting a bowl of incense.

5.   Phil Sheridan, a park service spokesman, said someone once struck the bell with a piece of a car muffler.

6.   As two bearded monks lifted his body from the casket, three men struck bells in the monastery tower.