Sample Sentences for
knell
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    The electric-chair knell of the doorbell sounded through the house again.  (source)
    knell = the sound of a bell ringing
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    In front of it were two yellow buses, our own tormentor and one that brought students from the other direction, and loitering students awaiting the knell of the morning bell.  (source)
    knell = the sound of a bell rung
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    The knell has sounded for capitalist private property, Marx would say.  (source)
    knell = death bell
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    The sound was a deep-throated bronze booming, coming faster with each knell.  (source)
    knell = ring of a bell
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    At six o’clock the bell rang. The death knell. The funeral.  (source)
    death knell = the sound of a bell rung slowly to announce a death or funeral
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    and as soon as the hands of the "repayther" pointed to half-past one, and its interior arrangements (it had a tone quite equal to a cathaydral, its fair owner considered) knelled forth that fatal hour, Mrs. O'Dowd woke up her Major, and had as comfortable a cup of coffee prepared for him as any made that morning in Brussels.†  (source)
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    After the psalmodies, the bells, the peals, and knells and offices, the sound of these little girls burst forth on a sudden more sweetly than the noise of bees.†  (source)
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    Like a leaden knell the words came back at him: WAR IS PEACE; FREEDOM IS SLAVERY; IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.  (source)
    knell = slow ringing of a bell
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    There was only the solemn, hourly bonging of the great clock in the bell tower of Hurd's Church; especially on the most brittle-cold days of December, and against the landscape of old snow—thawed and refrozen to the dull, silver-gray sheen of pewter—the clock-bell of Hurd's Church tolled the time like a death knell.  (source)
    death knell = the sound of a bell rung slowly to announce a death
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    The gong clanged and knelled.†  (source)
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    These words fell like the knell of doom — "All those top-knots must be cut off."  (source)
    knell = slow ringing of a bell to announce a death (used figuratively to indicate something ominous)
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    The death knell of Spencer Lawton's precious gunshot-residue test.  (source)
    death knell = demise
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    The sleep into which I now sank refreshed me; and when I awoke, I again felt as if I belonged to a race of human beings like myself, and I began to reflect upon what had passed with greater composure; yet still the words of the fiend rang in my ears like a death-knell; they appeared like a dream, yet distinct and oppressive as a reality.  (source)
    knell = the sound of a bell rung slowly to announce death (used figuratively here to indicate something ominous)
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    Knell and Poggin, and then Cheseldine himself, would be persuaded of this fact, so Fletcher boasted.  (source)
    Knell = a character in the story
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    When he heard Fletcher's name and faced Knell he knew he had reached the place he sought.  (source)
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    But Knell was not there, and most assuredly not Poggin.  (source)
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    Knell's words cut the air, stilled the room.  (source)
    Knell = a character in the story
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    He thought he pulled a stroke with Knell.  (source)
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    Knell had cut out with the trenchant call, and stood ready.  (source)
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    Knell coolly eyed his antagonist, his strange face not changing in the least.  (source)
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    An' it 'pears I'm the cause of friction between Knell an' Poggy.  (source)
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    If that red-handed Poggin, if that cold-eyed, dead-faced Knell had only been at Ord!  (source)
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    Knell never had any use fer me, but Poggy's been square, if not friendly.  (source)
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    Knell had a record, but as gunman with an incredible list of victims Poggin was supreme.  (source)
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    Then Knell came in and seated himself without any of his chief's ease.  (source)
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    "Dodge, I'm in bad with Knell," he said.  (source)
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