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the sound of a bell rung slowly — especially to announce death or a funeralor:
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
- Let us all ring fancy's knell:William Shakespeare -- The Merchant of Venice
- 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
- Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:William Shakespeare -- The Tempest
- The electric-chair knell of the doorbell sounded through the house again.Kate DiCamillo -- Flora & Ulysses
- 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
- —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
knell = slow ringing of a bell
knell = death bell
knell = the sound of a bell rung slowly
knell = bell
knell = the sound of a bell ringing
knell = the sound of a bell rung slowly to announce death or a funeral
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