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Definition

the sound of a bell rung slowly — especially to announce death or a funeral

or:

announcing the demise or end of something

The poll should be interpreted as the death knell of her campaign.

knell = the sound of a bell rung slowly — especially to announce death or a funeral

Like a leaden knell the words came back at him: WAR IS PEACE; FREEDOM IS SLAVERY; IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.
George Orwell -- 1984

knell = slow ringing of a bell

Let us all ring fancy's knell:
William Shakespeare -- The Merchant of Venice

knell = death bell

If ever another wedding were so dismal, it was that famous one where they tolled the wedding knell.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Minister's Black Veil

knell = the sound of a bell rung slowly

Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:
William Shakespeare -- The Tempest

knell = bell

The electric-chair knell of the doorbell sounded through the house again.
Kate DiCamillo -- Flora & Ulysses

knell = the sound of a bell ringing

Today it was not just telling us that in five minutes mass would begin, today it was crying the knell of Lupito.
Rudolfo Anaya -- Bless Me, Ultima

knell = the sound of a bell rung slowly to announce death or a funeral

—What death-knell rings in it, that old Ahab shakes as if he were the belfry.
Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
This wild deep Roo—ooo was the knell of the buffalo.
Zane Grey -- The Thundering Herd
Be this sweet Helen's knell, and now forget her.
William Shakespeare -- All's Well That Ends Well
In the words "as usual," and again in her added, "mine, at all events," there seemed an ominous knell of some evil to come.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Idiot
The sound was a deep-throated bronze booming, coming faster with each knell.
George R.R. Martin -- A Clash of Kings
The knell of those words affects my memory of a time when in fact they were not heard at all.
Virginia Woolf -- A Sketch of the Past
The knell has sounded for capitalist private property, Marx would say.
Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
Chauvelin spoke curtly and to the point, and every word he uttered struck at Marguerite's heart like the death-knell of her fondest hopes.
Baroness Orczy -- The Scarlet Pimpernel
The clatter of his precious pans as they fell down into the dark was like a death-knell to his heart.
J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Return of the King
I found out later that the dorado is famed for its death-knell iridescence.
Yann Martel -- Life of Pi
A knell from the church bell broke harshly on these youthful thoughts.
Charles Dickens -- Oliver Twist
To this fair creation of the great Middle-Age the Dissolution was, as historians tell us, the death-knell.
Thomas Hardy -- Jude the Obscure
Yet, at the moment, from high up in the carved crevices of the arch, floated down the low, strange wail of wind—a knell indeed for all that had gone.
Zane Grey -- Riders of the Purple Sage

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