Sentence examples for the knell from inspiring English sources
verb
To ring a bell slowly, especially for a funeral; to toll.
The bell that lately tolled the knell.
It being Dec., The bell that lately tolled the knell.
Others, however, promptly took his place, sounding the knell of reform in both church and society.
(Other attacks were to come. The knell rang, at last, on February 28 , 1916.
Rudi Gernreich, proud father of the topless bathing suit, sounded the knell in 1969 when he decreed, "Morality is individual".
Meanwhile, an indeterminate heavy-metal track grinds out from a radio, sounding more like the knell of an aquatic apocalypse.
The couple explained what they were doing, and a week later, the Knells were already looking for land.
The election about the economy also sounded the death knell for the Republican culture wars.
A fine book about the brave speech that sounded the death knell of the 70s.
The miners are defeated, ringing the death knell for the industry while Thatcher and her free-market policies emerge victorious.
"We knew if we ever lost the Packers, it would be the death knell of the city of Green Bay".
