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Meanings of knell in English
Synonyms
Examples for "ring"
Examples for "ring"
1
One thing was clear, however; his finances didn't ring true at all.
2
Looking for a quietly sociable way to ring in the new year?
3
He obtained this ring at great cost and, I believe, personal tragedy.
4
You say the ring is dangerous, far more dangerous than I guess.
5
The trafficking ring had been active since at least 2013, police said.
Usage of knell in English
1
The days of Gettysburg and Vicksburg ring the knell of the Confederacy.
2
It was the knell of the architecture of Venice-andof Venice herself.
3
The death-knell of an inhabitant of the eastern parish was being tolled.
4
To Sixtus the news came as the knell of his dearest hopes.
5
The sound struck to the heart of his wife like a knell.
6
For the War cannot end till the death-knell of autocracy is sounded.
7
The cry came suddenly, and rang through the cavern like a knell.
8
Mr. McCLERNAND:-Thisvote divides the Republican party, and sounds its death knell.
9
There were, I confess, times that I would have welcomed that knell.
10
She rang the knell of a new hat by her next question.
11
The bell rolled forth another peal-it sounded like a knell-and she awoke.
12
Its death knell was struck when the noon-day darkness lifted from Calvary.
13
The sound was a deep-throated bronze booming, coming faster with each knell.
14
Thus we may draw a sad but profitable moral from this funeral-knell.
15
Nor was there bell to toll a knell above my Hertha's grave.
16
These words fell on my soul like a kind of death knell.
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Knell through the time
Knell across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common