[
US
/ˈnɛɫ/
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[ UK /nˈɛl/ ]
[ UK /nˈɛl/ ]
NOUN
- the sound of a bell rung slowly to announce a death or a funeral or the end of something
VERB
- ring as in announcing death
-
make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification
My uncle rings every Sunday at the local church
Ring the bells
How To Use knell In A Sentence
- The death knell could also be sounded for other species dependent on the ice, such as the ringed seal, bearded seal and little auk.
- Spain is to move its clocks back one hour to be in time with Britain in a change that could sound the death knell for the siesta. Times, Sunday Times
- _What_ disaster it was that was thus knelled forth they knew not, and could hardly believe the tidings when given in articulate words. Great Britain and Her Queen
- 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. A Run by Rail from Washington to St. Louis
- Sergeant Caroline Constantine, 31, is currently on the bandmaster's course at the Royal Military School of Music at Kneller Hall.
- His right hand, clenched into an iron mallet, battered desperately at the fearful face bent toward his; the beast-like teeth shattered under his blows and blood splattered, but still the red eyes gloated and the taloned fingers sank deeper and deeper until a ringing in Turlogh's ears knelled his soul's departure. People of the Dark
- Internet ringing a death knell? Times, Sunday Times
- And that could sound the death knell for Britain's universal post service.
- The arrival of large supermarkets sounded the death knell of many small local shops.
- But moral relativism is the death knell of a civilisation. Times, Sunday Times
