knell

Example Sentences

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Expectations for dividend cuts are typically a death knell for stocks.

From Barron's

It announced, Ms. Newman writes, the “death knell to any remaining attachment to the inherited ideals of the Greek notion of beauty.”

From The Wall Street Journal

And he warned the chancellor's Budget would "be the death knell to the British pub".

From BBC

R360 'would be death knell for club rugby around the world'

From BBC

Now its crash was like a death knell.

From The Wall Street Journal