knell

Some see it as a death knell for solar tiles; others, as an opportunity.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

It is a death knell for a long-held belief among media executives that putting content and the “pipes” that delivered it under one roof would create riches for all.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

Is this the death knell of American political satire?

From Salon ● May 19, 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

These words fell like the knell of doom—

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Time magazine tagged her as one of the death knells of feminism, which seems harsh.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 25, 2017

They worked for him at Modern Photography, Holiday, Travel & Leisure, Town & Country and other publications, most of them gone long before the Internet began sounding its knells for the printed page.

From New York Times ● Jun. 13, 2015

Despite the death knells, Luke Donald spent part of the year at No. 1, and after dropping to No. 3, supplanted Woods at No. 2 by December.

From Golf Digest ● Dec. 5, 2012

But Schiller's great ringing poem is superbly campanologistic; so is Southey's 'Inch Cope Bell,' and to this division belong all tollings, fire-alarms, and knells in verse whatever.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

He's more used to knells, And sounds them grandly.

From Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Francesca da Rimini by Montrose Jonas Moses

To-morrow—” He fell silent; again in his heart that parting cadence knelled with keen and intolerable sorrow.

From Stepsons of Light by Eugene Manlove Rhodes

All started, as a deep groan knelled in their ears.

From Rookwood by William Harrison Ainsworth

At the same time the sad "too late, too late," was knelled in my ears, and I thought of the might-have-been, and rode the merry-go-round of regret's banalities.

From The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel by William John Locke

Although their beating hearts with ours kept time, Although their clinging hands we fondly held, We could not walk the path they had to climb, Hardly we heard the death-call when it knelled.

From Memorial Day and Other Verse by Helen Leah Reed

The typical, significant sound knelled to her heart.

From Sir George Tressady — Volume II by Mrs. Humphry Ward

In every traveler's eulogy there is a strain of elegy, and every traveler hearkens to the raven's knelling cry of "Nevermore."

From Time Magazine Archive

While many of the world's thinkers are worried about the proliferation of births, it is the knelling sound of death that keeps us awake at night.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thou sleep'st upon the shore Beside the knelling surge, And sea-nymphs evermore Shall sadly chant thy dirge.

From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 by Various

Such memories have linked these hills and caves, These woodland paths, and streams, and knelling waves Past to each sad pulsation of my breast, And made their melancholy arms the haven of my rest.

From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) by Florence A. Thomas Marshall

For memory, dwelling On each proud swelling Of thy belfry, knelling Its bold notes free, Made the bells of Shandon Sound far more grand on The pleasant waters Of the river Lee.

From Victorian Songs Lyrics of the Affections and Nature by Edmund Henry Garrett