knell
IPA: nˈɛɫ
noun
- The sound of a bell knelling; a toll (particularly one signalling a death).
- (figuratively) A sign of the end or demise of something or someone.
- A surname.
verb
- (intransitive) To ring a bell slowly, especially for a funeral; to toll.
- (transitive) To signal or proclaim something (especially a death) by ringing a bell.
- (transitive) To summon by, or as if by, ringing a bell.
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Examples of "knell" in Sentences
- a single one if the knell is for man, or two for a woman.
- BBC World Service cuts: 'This is the death knell' - video
- Obama will be signing the death knell of the American Space Program. keny
- Manks language, which they call her knell; after which Christmas begins. "
- This is of course connected with "knell," though the only Kneller who has become famous was a German named Kniller.
- -- the slumber which visits her pillow, as she listens to that sad music she called her knell; her awakening from the vision of celestial joy to find herself still on earth --
- In another moment it forged slowly past me, tolling as it were a death knell from the engine-bell and associating in my mind spectral tableaux of horrible collisions and mangled dead.
- When they had gone from house to house and collected all the money they could, they laid the wren on a bier and carried it in procession to the parish churchyard, where they made a grave and buried it “with the utmost solemnity, singing dirges over her in the Manks language, which they call her knell; after which
- When they had gone from house to house and collected all the money they could, they laid the wren on a bier and carried it in procession to the parish churchyard, where they made a grave and buried it with the utmost solemnity, singing dirges over her in the Manks language, which they call her knell; after which Christmas begins.
- When they had gone from house to house and collected all the money they could, they laid the wren on a bier and carried it in procession to the parish churchyard, where they made a grave and buried it "with the utmost solemnity, singing dirges over her in the Manks language, which they call her knell; after which Christmas begins."
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