Sentence examples for a knell from inspiring English sources

A knell is the sound of a bell, hence "death knell".

And it feels like a knell for the current era of post-millennial British guitar music.

But if there's more of a knell than a jingle reverberating though this particular season's end-of-year books, well, there's good reason.

The note again resonates, a knell that trembles with troubling persistence: what has happened is beyond humanity, at least as any of these three figures has known it.

When someone like O'Reilly screams "tradition" as a justification for continuing a societal action, it's usually a death knell for progress, a death knell for innovation and often, a death knell for critical thought.

But to me, it sounds more like a death knell, or a warning.

Mr. Hamilton, this movie is sort of a death knell for a swinging bachelor.

The agency is seeking to bar him from overseeing outside investor funds, a death knell to a hedge fund manager.

COMMENTOverfast expansion sounds a death knell for a lot of good ideas that are only modestly sustainable.

The Houthi push was a death knell to a 2011 political transition backed by the Gulf states, which had removed Saleh from power after 40 years.

Negative briefing documents from FDA staff hardly represent a death knell for a drug.