Examples of 'knell' in a sentence
Meaning of "knell"
A knell is the sound of a bell, especially when rung solemnly for a death or funeral
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- To ring a bell slowly, especially for a funeral; to toll.
- To signal or proclaim something (especially a death) by ringing a bell.
- To summon by, or as if by, ringing a bell.
- The sound of a bell knelling; a toll (particularly one signalling a death).
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Death knell rings for warsaw pact.
Sea nymphs hourly ring his knell.
The echoes of the knell terrified people.
Knell to fishing and water sports thereon.
It is the death knell of federal habeas law.
No oses will signal your death knell.
It was the death knell of a system committing suicide.
Some say that shriek was a death knell.
This is the death knell of this administration.
And the chimes they were ringing a knell.
This was the death knell of the party.
This choice rang his death knell.
The death knell for mankind.
The apathy will be our death knell.
The death knell of our dreams.
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The trumpets sounded the death knell.
Better their death knell than ours.
A McCain victory would be the death knell.
The knell of victory will be played in the heart.
These scandals sound the knell of socialism.
Hearts knell was the wise old gent.
It now sees its final death knell.
For it is a knell that summons thee to heaven or to hell.
Left arm bending is not a death knell.
Knell was dead within half an hour.
So it became the death knell of the studio system.
A knell makes an ugly punctuation in space.
No not the death knell of progressivism.
The knell of the inflated monetary system sounds.
It can be the death knell to any military adventure.
Knell in answering the questions that.
The death knell for this.
I knell down next to the girl.
Two years listening to sound my own death knell.
It is a death knell on the quality of education in the country.
Sounds more like a death knell.
That rings a small death knell somewhere inside.
Each jingle bell is a requiem knell.
I will ring the death knell in your ears.
Has a nice ring kinda like a death knell.
It was seen as a death knell for painting.
Cancer is simply a diagnosis not a knell.
Cast changes are the death knell of television series.
The toll of the death knell.
That would be a death knell for the company.
That may be his death knell.
It will mark the death knell of peace and security.
I hope it is not your death knell.
An ominous knell resonated in my ears.
These words fell like the knell of doom.
