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the church bells knelled to mark the death of the nation's beloved leaderRecent Examples on the Web: Noun
Don’t judge it, which is the death-knell of connection and teens, just make it. — Meghan Leahy, Washington Post, "How to navigate your relationship with your teen son," 11 Sep. 2019 Saturday signaled the death knell for Brown’s fleeting time as a Raider. — BostonGlobe.com, "a video hyping Brown’s preseason workouts in Oakland," 11 Sep. 2019 In March 2018, the death knell rang for the northern white rhino when a 45-year-old male named Sudan passed away at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya. — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, "Eggs Successfully Collected from the Last Two Northern White Rhinos," 24 Aug. 2019 That came after federal biologists reversed themselves in July — concluding that the Rialto development would not be the death knell for the rat — even though the subdivision would cover 1,048 acres of critical habitat. — Los Angeles Times, "This rat is foiling developers’ plans to capitalize on a weaker Endangered Species Act," 22 Aug. 2019 The inside posts on the main track have been a death knell. — San Diego Union-Tribune, "Column: Oceanside horse owner Bloom eyeing Breeders’ Cup with Midnight Bisou," 27 Aug. 2019 Declining enrollment coupled with chronic funding issues was the school's death knell. — Lily Altavena, azcentral, "Squeezed by declining enrollment, Arizona's rural schools are suffering," 12 June 2019 And that could sound the death knell for the area, which is completely dependent -- as is all of Borrego Springs -- on groundwater because there is no economically feasible way to bring water via aqueduct or pipes to that portion of the desert. — San Diego Union-Tribune, "Borrego Air Ranch: A desert community in peril," 7 July 2019 One thing everyone agrees on: the opening of the charter school, Woodland Prep, is a death knell for the current setup of the community schools. — Trisha Powell Crain | Tcrain@al.com, al.com, "Rural charter school stokes religious fears, roils community in Alabama," 21 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'knell.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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