How To Use Knell In A Sentence
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The death knell could also be sounded for other species dependent on the ice, such as the ringed seal, bearded seal and little auk.
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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
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_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
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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
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Sergeant Caroline Constantine, 31, is currently on the bandmaster's course at the Royal Military School of Music at Kneller Hall.
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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
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Internet ringing a death knell?
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And that could sound the death knell for Britain's universal post service.
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The arrival of large supermarkets sounded the death knell of many small local shops.
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But moral relativism is the death knell of a civilisation.
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Flagging passion is often interpreted as the death knell of a relationship.
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The loss of Georgia would sound the death knell of Republican hopes.
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The amount of complaints that would come if we still were that band would have been the death knell.
The Sun
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THIS week the death - knell sounded for America's love affair with pick - up trucks and sport - utility vehicles ( SUVs ).
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The revolution tolled the death knell for the Russian monarchy.
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She was a little overexcited and playful in the first few days, so she may have overdone it," said Cracknell.
Anne the elephant says goodbye to the circus
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Praveen's particularly nostalgic brand of outswing been compared to many things this morning - Mike Smith, Martin Bicknell, Mudassar Nazar, Jon Lewis, Terry Alderman.
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It sounded the knell of scientific bourgeois economy.
The Making of Neoclassical Economics
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The revolution tolled the death knell for the Russian monarchy.
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Just as the Jeremiahs incorrectly predicted blogging would be the death knell of professional journalists everywhere--heaven forbid--the same fatidic crew probably think the advent of the blogging phone means photojournalism is now also a moribund profession.
Flint's Sony Ericsson Releases 'Blogging Phone'
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Yet it's too soon to sound the death knell for culture.
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This is the death knell of literature.
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Before that first stone was put in place the Bucknells were in dispute with the council over its design, and had two suggestions turned down.
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The bell is knelling.
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Internet ringing a death knell?
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BBC World Service cuts: 'This is the death knell' - video
Letters: Anti-Murdoch hysteria could threaten Sky News
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The bright sky shone down on the dying beast as its death knell rang in my ears.
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Together these factors are sounding the death knell for secondary school dinners.
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Bicknell referred, long before they were commonly known about, to organophosphorous (OP) compounds.
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Going freelance was the death knell.
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For journalists, it could well signal the death-knell of the spiral-bound notebook with its copious shorthand notes.
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His failure knelled the bankruptcy of the company.
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Nothing much, a bit of carelessness, yet enough to bring the professional wrath of Doctor Bicknell about his ears and to perturb the working of the staff and nurses for twenty-four hours to come.
SEMPER IDEM
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The unstoppable rise of internet shopping was supposed to sound the death knell of the British high street.
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The clang of the door of opportunity thus knelled in the ears of the colored house servant whirled the whole face of Negro advancement as on some great pivot.
DARKWATER
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The euro was considered the death knell for national currencies.
Times, Sunday Times
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a single one if the knell is for man, or two for a woman.
The Wide, Wide World
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The daughter of a blue-collar factory worker, Anne grew up on a council estate in Bracknell.
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He is now undertaking the bandmaster's course at Kneller Hall, Twickenham.
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The huntsman's horn sounded the final knell when the last traditional hunt by the Tedworth came to en end.
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The group predicted that the label notice might be the "death knell" for dyes across
WTSP.com 10 Connects Local News
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And such was fortunate, yet each of old Lost, lost! one moment knelled the woe of years.
The Dark Tower
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The recommendations would sound the death knell for investigative journalism.
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If he loses this referendum, it will sound the death knell for his leadership.
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But music experts fear it will sound the death knell of the music industry.
The Sun
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History suggests that being cast as the villain in such high-pressure situations does not always sound the death knell for a career.
Times, Sunday Times
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But when it became clear that this would knell for Cryos, tax authorities withdrew the proposal.
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If you fear this may be just one more story to sound a warning knell about the IT skills shortage - not to worry.
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Finally just as fashion had contributed to the rise of hairwork, so did it toll its death knell.
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So, on this morning that Semper Idem was to leave the hospital, hale and hearty, Doctor Bicknell's geniality was in nowise disturbed by the steward's report, and he proceeded cheerfully to bring order out of the chaos of a child's body which had been ground and crunched beneath the wheels of an electric car.
SEMPER IDEM
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The two events announce themselves with clarity and precision, like a campanile knelling the final hour of the day.
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It sounded the knell of scientific bourgeois economy.
The Making of Neoclassical Economics
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The huntsman's horn sounded the final knell when the last traditional hunt by the Tedworth came to en end.
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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
The Golden Bough : a study of magic and religion
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But music experts fear it will sound the death knell of the music industry.
The Sun
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They are expected to sound the death knell for many specialist and small law firms which rely mainly on legal aid work to survive.
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Yet it's too soon to sound the death knell for culture.
Times, Sunday Times
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This in turn will be the death knell of small local shops.
The Sun
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The thousands daily knelled out of the world, who lie in gorgeous sepulchres, or rot unburied on the surface of the earth, excite no emotion compared to that conjured up by the meanest dead at our feet.
The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy
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But moral relativism is the death knell of a civilisation.
Times, Sunday Times
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But its huge clocks had successively knelled three hours after midnight, and all continued still and silent as the grave.
Quentin Durward
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Most feel that failure to diversify and a complacency born of the plant's long history have sounded its death knell.
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The recommendations would sound the death knell for investigative journalism.
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The death knell for a revised Thanksgiving came when retailers began admitting their revenues had not improved after all.
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They do not want to know that centralization is not only the death-knell of liberty, but also of health and beauty, of art and science, all these being impossible in a clock-like, mechanical atmosphere.
Reading from the fringes of dissent « Dyepot, Teapot
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That provides a reminder that the 20-over game was supposed to sound the death knell for spin.
Times, Sunday Times
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If you drink your tea black and sugar free then it could be the death knell for teaspoons in your house.
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They are expected to sound the death knell for many specialist and small law firms which rely mainly on legal aid work to survive.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's like ringing the death knell on a sale.
Times, Sunday Times
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In any event, when I tried to skirt the browser interface and populate the cluster database manually with the provided script, I was greeted with what I consider the death knell of this project.
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That was the death knell for him.
The Sun
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Croson to be the death knell for minority contracting laws, many big city officials refused to give up.
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But moral relativism is the death knell of a civilisation.
Times, Sunday Times
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How that sovereign he flung upon the counter seemed to ring the knell of his seif-respect!
Philistia
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The very word is like a knell, signalling the approach of death.
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One of the more overlooked lines in The Importance Of Being Earnest is Lady Bracknell's passing remark that she had no fortune whatever before she married; she may, in other words, have been herself guilty of exactly the arrivisme of which she implicitly accuses the handbag-foundling Jack Worthing.
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The death knell for the royal line rang out across the besieged tower as a noticeable dent began to appear in the door of the chamber.
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Manks language, which they call her knell; after which Christmas begins.
The Golden Bough
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This in turn will be the death knell of small local shops.
The Sun
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Cracknell, who rowed in Britain's coxless four triumph at the last Olympic Games in Sydney, said the win was even sweeter after the ups and downs the boat had endured this season.
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This is, of course, the death knell for any relationship and generally the signal for a period of random hedonism and profound loneliness.
Times, Sunday Times
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Energy analyst Walt Patterson believes this would sound the death knell for research.
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The church clock, slowly and deliberately striking seven in the morning, was like a knell to that day's death.
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That was the death knell for him.
The Sun
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This in turn will be the death knell of small local shops.
The Sun
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The blade hit the peak of the man's cloth-covered helmet, ringing his ears like the knell of doom.
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However, it was the Titanic disaster that sounded the death knell for his collapsible armada with the introduction, paradoxically, of strict new lifeboat regulations.
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I crept on, therefore, trusting that the sinuosities of the ground, broken as it was into knells and sand-pits, would permit me to obtain a sight of the musicians before I should be observed by them.
Redgauntlet
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The amount of complaints that would come if we still were that band would have been the death knell.
The Sun
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It was Jo Gordon's trademark Dr Who scarves that first aroused the magpie eyes of the UK fashion pack three years ago, sounding the first death knell for the soppy pashmina.
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And not from the East and not from the West knelled that soul-waking cry
DARKWATER
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That was the death knell for him.
The Sun
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Livra's words had set a bell tolling the death knell in the king's head.
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While at Bucknell University, he edited the conservative newspaper, the Sentinel.
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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
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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.
Chapter 54. Types of Animal Sacrament. § 2. Processions with Sacred Animals
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I was sure anyone within five miles would have heard it the way they hear a church bell's knell or a train's whistle.
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The unstoppable rise of internet shopping was supposed to sound the death knell of the British high street.
Times, Sunday Times
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Now, I am a man of the world, and I know where to change on a train journey from Guildford to Bracknell.
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He remains close friends with Redgrave and is a godfather to both his and Cracknell's children.
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The blade hit the peak of the man's cloth-covered helmet, ringing his ears like the knell of doom.
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This is of course connected with "knell," though the only Kneller who has become famous was a German named Kniller.
The Romance of Names
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The word tolled inside Leah Balfour Dalton’s mind like a death knell.
Almost a Whisper
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On my way to an engagement in Bracknell.
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The death knell may be about to sound for Yorkshire's last remaining pits.
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Cracknell is alluding to the shockwaves sent out by the pair's thrashing in Milan.
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If you think this "discrepancy" is the death-knell of global warming theory, you really don't understand what's going on, "Bart".
Balkinization
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Some said it was the death knell of a competition famed for its magic.
The Sun
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I made that bonnet myself," Winifred declared, as Ruth knelled down beside the dolls and exclaimed admiringly over Josephine's fine apparel.
A Little Maid of Old Philadelphia
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She wore tiny bat hearts strung around her neck which knelled each moment's sip of time.
Creatures: A Memoir
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Those three earsplitting beeps were a death knell: the demise of all my planning and scheming.
The Dark Side of Innocence
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It was Adolf Julicher who sounded the death – knell in allegorizing the Parables that had bedeviled their interpretation throughout the centuries.
Parables ��� What are?
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That provides a reminder that the 20-over game was supposed to sound the death knell for spin.
Times, Sunday Times
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The church clock, slowly and deliberately striking seven in the morning, was like a knell to that day's death.
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Going freelance was the death knell.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion
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Their destruction and subsequent conversion into layouts sounded the death knell for the loras, white-eyes, garblers and fly-catchers.
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It is the coda of the executioner, the knell of bloody doom.
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Obama will be signing the death knell of the American Space Program. keny
Liftoff of Atlantis - NASA Watch
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Cracknell and Pinsent were supposed to be rowing as a pair, then they got moved into the four.
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Is the rise of DIY litigants the death knell for court lawyers?
Times, Sunday Times
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Some pundits said it was the death knell for the record industry.
Times, Sunday Times
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Westminster council sounded the death knell yesterday and others are preparing to follow suit.
Times, Sunday Times
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Westminster council sounded the death knell yesterday and others are preparing to follow suit.
Times, Sunday Times
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As the knell died away, a black flag slowly rose up the mast and stopped half-way.
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-- 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 --
Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical
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I could almost hear the two-tone foghorns knelling my demise.
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This is, of course, the death knell for any relationship and generally the signal for a period of random hedonism and profound loneliness.
Times, Sunday Times
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But moral relativism is the death knell of a civilisation.
Times, Sunday Times
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History suggests that being cast as the villain in such high-pressure situations does not always sound the death knell for a career.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's like ringing the death knell on a sale.
Times, Sunday Times
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For a health care system already on life support due to extreme budget cuts, the extraction of $500,000,000 dollars would be the death knell.
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He gets busted for deserting his post and slinking off to [...] jj at bucknell
Sanford impeachment unlikely, state legislators say
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Going freelance was the death knell.
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A former wilderness guide now with the Adirondack Nature Conservancy, Prickett had done bird surveys from the mountain, recording Bicknell's thrush, Swainson's thrush, winter wren, blackpoll warbler and white-throated sparrow.
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An appearance on this register would toll the death knell for an architects' career.
