(n.) The stoke of a bell tolled at a funeral or at the death of a person; a death signal; a passing bell; hence, figuratively, a warning of, or a sound indicating, the passing away of anything.
(n.) To sound as a knell; especially, to toll at a death or funeral; hence, to sound as a warning or evil omen.
(v. t.) To summon, as by a knell.
Example Sentences:
(1) The BBC Trust The green paper sounds the death knell for the BBC’s current governance system in the form of the BBC Trust, which it says has come under “sustained criticism” as a result of the Savile scandal, the £100m Digital Media Initiative fiasco and excessive payoffs and salaries to BBC executives.
(2) He said: "If Heathrow builds its runway, it will be the death knell of low-cost flying for a generation."
(3) In the Commons yesterday all the former ministers were rounded on by a succession of Labour MPs claiming the moment marked the death knell of New Labour.
(4) Fashion's current preoccupation with art is effectively the death knell of the minimalist look – most art (Donald Judd and his ilk aside) is about getting messy.
(5) The return of the jihadists is likely to sound the death knell for the anti-regime opposition in north Syria.
(6) Brexit may sound the death knell for this progress.
(7) Saleh's return to Yemen after more than three months would seem to sound the death knell for the exit plan and the start of a bid to consolidate his ruling party's power base, which crumbled in his absence.
(8) You are neither the death knell for immigration reform nor the prime mover of the GOP agenda.
(9) "As such, it is highly likely the chancellor's annuity announcement will also turn out to be disastrous for first-time buyers and could represent the death knell of aspirations of homeownership for millions of young families.
(10) It will be the death knell for the whole Scottish literature "project" – a crushing denial of an identity that writers have been meticulously accumulating, trying to maintain and refine.
(11) Last Post in Iraq: this is the death knell of the American empire | George Galloway Read more Gen Bednarek adds: “The tougher issue will be, ‘what’s next?’ We must have local Sunni police and our tribes of Falluja sustain the fragile security, re-establish governance, and provide for the people,” he says.
(12) The regime’s offensive has been seen in the opposition-held north as a death knell for the UN deal, negotiated by its special envoy Staffan de Mistura, for a six-week ceasefire in the city.
(13) His comments were seen by some as sounding the death knell of the plan.
(14) And while the poll tax may be beyond the memory of most active politicians (the infamous riot that sounded its death knell took place 24 years ago this week) its consequences live on, from a contributory role in Mrs Thatcher's downfall to a massive and damaging centralisation of funding for local councils.
(15) In what some have described the death-knell for “Abenomics” – his three-arrow policy of monetary easing, fiscal stimulus and structural reform – recent currency and market turmoil have wiped out the gains made soon after he became prime minister in late 2012.
(16) However, the switch to refrigerated lorries and growth in supermarket power sounded the death knell for many of these smaller farms, with the number of dairy farmers falling from 200,000 in the 1950s to around 10,000 today.
(17) The Department of Health last month publicly sounded the death knell for Labour's ill-fated £11.4bn national programme for IT, which began in 2002 and was said to be the largest civilian computer project ever undertaken.
(18) In what was being seen in Westminster last night as the death knell of New Labour and a return to a form of traditional left-right politics, Darling became the first chancellor since the 1970s to announce income tax increases, and also scrapped Gordon Brown's fiscal rules to sanction a doubling of borrowing this year.
(19) The changing nature of the labour market in the final quarter of the 20th century sounded the death knell for the old job for life and the smooth career progression, but, says Reeves, the self-employment model characterised by WVM provided a means of upward mobility.
(20) It will not just be the death knell for the farm but the death knell for the whole community,” said Alan Davies, managing director of the FUW.
Knelt
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Kneel
(imp. & p. p.) of Kneel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Within seconds the chanting ceased as hundreds knelt to pray on the street.
(2) Something needs to change, and we’re just looking for solutions and working together to find them.” Thomas, Jenkins, Arian Foster and Kenny Stills knelt together during the anthem at the Dolphins’ opener.
(3) Finally Walter [Sisulu] came to me and knelt beside my bed, and I handed him the telegram.
(4) At one point, one knelt in front of the gleaming coffin topped with white roses.
(5) Jet-lagged and exhausted as I was, I knelt down and grasped my skull in anguish right there in front of the telly, bathed in the apocalyptic orange flames.
(6) They knew the lions were going to tear them to pieces but they knelt down and they prayed and they sang.
(7) She knelt in front of her sobbing husband and tried to ask him what was wrong.
(8) She knelt from a spot near the bench while the fellow substitutes around her stood.
(9) He knelt, changed magazines and started firing again, this time single shots.
(10) I didn't want to face the humiliation of their pity, so I knelt behind a bin and hid until they passed.
(11) While the dramatic picture of the cleric knelt beside Howes was beamed around the world, no one would know until years later that beneath his coat that day Reid was carrying an envelope containing one of the numerous top secret messages he ferried between Sinn Féin and Hume.
(12) As a police officer approached, Belcher knelt behind a vehicle, saying, "Guys, I have to do this...
(13) In the film, Ni says that during her pre-trial interrogation, a police officer [Xiao Wei] from Xicheng district police station "peed in my face" as she knelt on the floor.
(14) Several hundred men knelt around me in silence, their eyes closed and their hands on their knees.
(15) I started feeding her very discreetly when the waiter hurried over with a huge napkin, knelt down and said it was policy to cover up,” she told the Guardian.
(16) With an empty glass, he knelt down by a steel drum marked cabernet sauvignon 2013.
(17) Segmental epidural block allowed of lower dosages of bupivacaine, but only when the patient knelt on all four was it possible to eliminate post-block fetal heart deterioration completely.
(18) Another man was seen in the middle of the road holding his left leg while two people knelt over him.
(19) As the show ended, model Kristen McMenamy knelt down, found the end of a white rope in the autumn leaves that covered the catwalk, and followed it as it revealed a forest, hidden behind a fake brick wall.
(20) He tweeted: “50 yrs [sic] ago today, we set out to march from Selma to Montgomery to dramatize to the nation that people of color were denied the right to vote.” John Lewis (@repjohnlewis) Before we left a little church called Brown Chapel AME, we knelt and joined together in prayer.