How to Use Big Ben in a Sentence

Big Ben

noun

• Where the queen had Big Ben’s chimes, Churchill had a 90-gun salute to mark his years of life.
  — Anthony Faiola, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2022
• After tea, take in 360-degree views of city highlights, including Big Ben, from the open-air deck.
  — Sarah Bray, Town & Country, 21 June 2023
• 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.
  — George Varga, Twin Cities, 21 May 2024
• His takeover of the venerable Harrods in 1985 struck many Britons as shameless brass, something akin to buying Big Ben.
  — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2023
• 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.
  — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 12 Nov. 2023
• 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.
  — Anita Gates, New York Times, 26 May 2024
• 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.
  — Sylvia Hui, Fortune, 4 May 2023
• 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.
  — Sara Tidwell, The Enquirer, 22 Sep. 2022
• 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.
  — Amy Louise Bailey, Travel + Leisure, 29 Sep. 2023
• 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.
  — James Grebey, Vulture, 28 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024