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How to pronounce knell in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms ring
Type of sound
Has types toll
Type Words
Type of ring, peal
Type Words
Type of bell, toll

Examples of knell

knell
Knell was hoping that his turtle's skull had gone inside the shell before death.
From the sciencedaily.com
An LBO by Icahn or anyone else for that matter is a death knell for the company.
From the forbes.com
The inconsistencies in their rhetoric should be the death knell of Conservatism.
From the economist.com
Modernist Cuisine, he says, could finally sound the death knell for that phrase.
From the guardian.co.uk
His death in 1936 was widely considered the death knell for the Qamhat Bisharin.
From the en.wikipedia.org
But this is by no means the death knell for gas development in the Browse Basin.
From the au.news.yahoo.com
A lot of people have sounded the death knell for print media, but you disagree.
From the time.com
Since he was a power pitcher, it was the death knell for his major league career.
From the thestate.com
The discovery of oil in Pennsylvania in 1859 sounded the death knell for whaling.
From the nytimes.com
More examples
  • The sound of a bell rung slowly to announce a death or a funeral or the end of something
  • Ring as in announcing death
  • Ring: make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification; "Ring the bells"; "My uncle rings every Sunday at the local church"
  • The solemn sound of a bell, often indicating a death