How to Use knell in a Sentence

knell

noun

• That’s usually a death knell against the best team in the NFC.
  — Marla Ridenour, USA TODAY, 26 Dec. 2021
• Or will they be seen with regret, the Games that sounded the death knell for the Olympics?
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2022
• To those who prefer to write and read a wider range of books, these changes sound a death knell.
  — Meredith Maran, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2023
• Is that the death knell of this upstairs-downstairs soap?
  — Thelma Adams, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2022
• Of course, no national flags could be a death knell for the Olympics.
  — Stephen Wade, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Mar. 2022
• But, in 1938, cars and buses became the death knell for the railway.
  — Linda Gandee, cleveland, 24 May 2021
• As 2023 draws to a close, no one is sounding the death knell of the superhero movie.
  — Jake Coyle, Fortune, 27 Dec. 2023
• Is this the ringing of the death knell for the office, or can a case be made for its future?
  — David Michels, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
• Failing to score after a turnover could have been a death knell.
  — Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 21 Jan. 2024
• That should have been the death knell for the laundering method used by Chen and others.
  — Craig Silverman, ProPublica, 17 Jan. 2024
• Record highs have also sounded the death knell for ice on land.
  — Sarah Kaplan, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Dec. 2021
• Thursday’s roadblock did not signal the death knell for the idea.
  — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Feb. 2022
• A few more months of high inflation may ring the death knell for the White House’s agenda.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 13 Nov. 2021
• But the return of live music doesn’t have to be the death knell of virtual events.
  — Raisa Bruner, Time, 30 Mar. 2021
• The bearer of Rinna’s death knell, however, came in the form of Kathy Hilton.
  — Kate Aurthur, Variety, 5 Jan. 2023
• But the disastrous debut did not prove a death knell for her dreams.
  — Alex Williams, New York Times, 15 June 2023
• Everything over the past 24 hours should be a death knell for Azuki.
  — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Crypto, 1 July 2023
• Is the Build Back Better Act a death knell for insulin makers?
  — Nicholas Florko, STAT, 25 Nov. 2021
• And junk status isn’t a death knell for a company, by any stretch.
  — Taylor Locke, Fortune, 9 May 2022
• The death knell for me with the Pixel Buds Pro is audio quality.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 28 July 2022
• The final death knell of the Great Resignation has rung.
  — Nela Richardson, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2023
• News of the store’s closure felt like a death knell for riders who could recall when stores like the Record Mart were at their peak.
  — Christina Goldbaum, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2020
• Against a team with Tom Brady calling signals, special teams mishaps can be a death knell.
  — Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023
• That’s my death knell, just can’t take it anymore, end of everything.
  — Andy O'Connor, SPIN, 24 May 2022
• That ruling, in fact, could be the death knell for Facebook in the EU altogether.
  — Julia Malleck, Quartz, 6 July 2023
• If Musk follows through on what he's proposed, the sale may be the death knell for the social media platform.
  — Kara Alaimo, CNN, 25 Apr. 2022
• Scholars see Chaeronea as the death knell of the Classical Era of Greek history.
  — Daniel Mendelsohn, The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2021
• Drug lobbyists largely viewed it as a death knell for the package.
  — Rachel Cohrs, STAT, 23 July 2021
• Tuesday proved to be the likely death knell for Haley’s campaign.
  — USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2024
• The print edition survived the advent of radio, and then television, and surely both were predicted to have been its death knell.
  — David W. Dunlap, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024