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death knell

NOUN
  1. an omen of death or destruction
  2. a bell rung to announce a death

How To Use death knell In A Sentence

  • The death knell could also be sounded for other species dependent on the ice, such as the ringed seal, bearded seal and little auk.
  • Spain is to move its clocks back one hour to be in time with Britain in a change that could sound the death knell for the siesta. Times, Sunday Times
  • In another moment it forged slowly past me, tolling as it were a death knell from the engine-bell and associating in my mind spectral tableaux of horrible collisions and mangled dead. A Run by Rail from Washington to St. Louis
  • Internet ringing a death knell? Times, Sunday Times
  • And that could sound the death knell for Britain's universal post service.
  • The arrival of large supermarkets sounded the death knell of many small local shops.
  • But moral relativism is the death knell of a civilisation. Times, Sunday Times
  • Flagging passion is often interpreted as the death knell of a relationship.
  • The loss of Georgia would sound the death knell of Republican hopes.
  • The amount of complaints that would come if we still were that band would have been the death knell. The Sun
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