knell

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

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

If “Superman” had opened to critical and commercial failure, it would have been a death knell for the modern superhero genre as we know it.

From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2026

Now, many are wondering: Is the death knell finally tolling for the Cuban Revolution?

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2026

Future Americans will probably spend even more time on digital devices than they do now, but it will not be the death knell of live entertainment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 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

The dread words sound like a wail, The song of the waits, and the clash of the bells, Ring like death-bed dirges or funeral knells, In the pauses of the gale.

From Literary Byways by William Andrews

And the good suns we see, that flash and pass And perish; and the bell that knells them cries: "Another gone: O when will ye arise?"

From New Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson

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

There was no bell to toll there—but at the very moment he was ascending the scaffold, a black cloud knelled thunder, and many hundreds of people all at once fell down upon their knees.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by John Lyde Wilson

Of all the strange hours of my life it had knelled none more desperate than this!

From The Claw by Cynthia Stockley

But when the trumpet's warring blast   Had knelled the fate that tyrants know, They proved no laggards at the last,   And sprang to meet their country's foe.

From Cap and Gown A Treasury of College Verse by Frederic Lawrence Knowles

The typical, significant sound knelled to her heart.

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

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

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

If he were sighted from above, what should stay those bells from knelling for him.

From The Unknown Sea by Clemence Housman

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

O, very gloomy is the House of Woe, Where tears are falling while the bell is knelling, With all the dark solemnities which show That Death is in the dwelling!

From The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood by Thomas Hood