Vocabulary Word
Word: knell
Definition: tolling of a bell especially to indicate a funeral, disaster, etc.; sound of the funeral bell; V.
Definition: tolling of a bell especially to indicate a funeral, disaster, etc.; sound of the funeral bell; V.
Sentences Containing 'knell'
The plain cotton frock of our grandmothers had its death knell sounded a few years ago, when John Mercer showed that cotton fabrics soaked in caustic soda assumed under certain conditions a silky sheen, and when dyed took on beautiful and varied hues.
Never did funeral knell, never did alarm bell, produce a greater effect on the hearer.
There was a bell on board; and as the ship rolled and dashed, like a desperate creature driven mad, now showing us the whole sweep of her deck, as she turned on her beam-ends towards the shore, now nothing but her keel, as she sprung wildly over and turned towards the sea, the bell rang; and its sound, the knell of those unhappy men, was borne towards us on the wind.
He had a singular red cap on,--not like a sailor's cap, but of a finer colour; and as the few yielding planks between him and destruction rolled and bulged, and his anticipative death-knell rung, he was seen by all of us to wave it.
What means that little word?--What death-knell rings in it, that old Ahab shakes as if he were the belfry.
The advent of the automobile sounded the death knell for rail in Seattle.
The incestuous practice is typically an academic death knell for those not able to afford these special classes.
Lacking in Nietzsche is the anarchist Utopian-egalitarian belief that every soul is capable of epic greatness: Nietzsche aristocratic elitism is the death-knell of any Nietzschean conventional anarchism.
It is estimated that before the death-knell sounded for Carosello, the telecasts had been seen by about nineteen million viewers, an indication of its public success which is even today enviable given the number of TV sets in use.