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The words were a knell which he had heard before.
"It was never going to be the death knell of the company."
The couple considered the decision a death knell for their project.
"Did you know that was the death knell for her?"
I considered it at once as the knell of the Union.
But for us, in our situation, it was a knell.
This would, in effect, finally sound the death knell for the Convention.
No one is sounding a death knell for service people yet, of course.
Critics fear it will be the death knell of public education.
You, of course, are sounding its death knell at the moment.
This kind of economic policy is the death knell for libraries.
Two words that sounded the death knell of a people.
These words fell on my soul like a kind of death knell.
Thy voice is as the sound of dead love's knell.
Perhaps it will not be our knell of extinction, after all.
"Things have softened but by no means is it the death knell of the industry."
The economic limitations of these plans may sound their death knell in the future.
To lose this would be a death knell for the bank's mission.
So much for the general character of the knock or knell.
Each time, it felt like a death knell to this pregnancy.
As moments passed, standing men expected the knell to end.
Normally, this might mean a death knell for the arts group.
He left the party at the first knell; an example to us all."
When at last he spoke his words rang like a death knell.
Roy walked up to me and said "knell on the ground".