death knell
Example Sentences
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Is this the death knell of American political satire?
From Salon • May 19, 2026
While such a selloff might have been a death knell in years past, it has done little to ease Wall Street’s appetite for crypto.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
People on the internet seem to be taking Lindy West’s memoir as millennial feminism’s final death knell.
From Slate • Mar. 31, 2026
“In California, that’s not a death knell, that’s a life force.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2025
They had rung the bells when King Robert died, she remembered, but this was different, no slow dolorous death knell but a joyful thunder.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
