For some reason it gave him great satisfaction to beat the dinner bell.

You were great, Jack, to think of that dinner bell!

Afterwards, they heard the dinner bell, and Daddy said it was time to go home.

So many left, it looked as if someone had sounded the dinner bell and they thought the food would run out.

Period changes are announced by what sounds like a dinner bell.

He went into the living room, swinging the bottle like a dinner bell, turned on the television.

Then the dinner bell sounded, and he gave it up with a sigh.

She worked on her sketches until the dinner bell rang.

When darkness fell, the dinner bell would start ringing again.

The small dinner bell at the front door rang, and I jumped.