How to Use Big Ben in a Sentence
Big Ben
noun
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Where the queen had Big Ben’s chimes, Churchill had a 90-gun salute to mark his years of life.
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Anthony Faiola,
Washington Post,
19 Sep. 2022
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After tea, take in 360-degree views of city highlights, including Big Ben, from the open-air deck.
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Sarah Bray,
Town & Country,
21 June 2023
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Between the river and the nearby historic clock tower — a replica of Big Ben — is a beach with sand, parasols and room for 800 people.
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George Varga,
Twin Cities,
21 May 2024
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His takeover of the venerable Harrods in 1985 struck many Britons as shameless brass, something akin to buying Big Ben.
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Robert D. McFadden,
New York Times,
1 Sep. 2023
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Then, the royal party and the veterans stood quietly as Big Ben a couple of hundred yards away, chimed on the hour signaling the start of the two-minute silence.
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Simon Perry,
Peoplemag,
12 Nov. 2023
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The song plays as guests in boats pass among 240 dolls of many nations with identical faces — tiny can-can and folk dancers, mermaids and mariachi bands — plus Big Ben, the Taj Mahal and grinning farm animals.
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Anita Gates,
New York Times,
26 May 2024
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Union Jack bunting and crown decorations have appeared across the capital, while Big Ben was lit up in red as part of late-night dress rehearsals around midnight on Wednesday.
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Sylvia Hui,
Fortune,
4 May 2023
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Around the portrait, is a watercolor-style scenery of London's Big Ben, including the moon and the coordinates of exactly where in London his now two-year-old son took his first breath.
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Sara Tidwell,
The Enquirer,
22 Sep. 2022
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Firstly, how to divide your time between the 170 museums, parks, lively pubs, and iconic monuments from Buckingham Palace to Big Ben; and secondly, what to pack.
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Amy Louise Bailey,
Travel + Leisure,
29 Sep. 2023
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Gorgo, who resembles Godzilla with larger claws and finned ears that are, frankly, kind of cute, is captured and sold to a London circus … only for his much, much larger mother to smash through Big Ben and rescue her baby.
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James Grebey,
Vulture,
28 Mar. 2024
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