2 example sentences using belfry.
Belfry used in a sentence
Belfry in a sentence as a noun
It is still a marvelous and miraculous invention, but now there are bugs in the foundation, bats in the belfry, and trolls in the basement. I do not mean this to be one of those technophobic rants dissing the Internet for rewiring our brains to give us the twitchy attention span of Donald Trump on Twitter or pontificating about how we have to log off and smell the flowers.
I was really hoping it would be something more like, because there's a mechanical flaw that causes the clock to run slow, and it takes three minutes reach the belfry of the clock tower from, the street. This means that when the clock master notices that the clock is running on time, he has three minutes to reach the belfry, and set the clock forward three minutes, so that it never runs slow enough to make people late.
Belfry definitions
a bell tower; usually stands alone unattached to a building
See also: campanile
a room (often at the top of a tower) where bells are hung