How to Use knell in a Sentence

knell

noun

• If the movie had played in theaters that could have been the death knell.
  — Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
• Record highs have also sounded the death knell for ice on land.
  — Sarah Kaplan, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Dec. 2021
• Failing to score after a turnover could have been a death knell.
  — Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 21 Jan. 2024
• Should the movie be considered its death knell?
  — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 22 Jan. 2026
• Instead, the sequence was the death knell.
  — Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 4 Dec. 2025
• To those who prefer to write and read a wider range of books, these changes sound a death knell.
  — Meredith Maran, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2023
• This used to be a death knell—the shoes that fit the bill were hideous until a few years ago.
  — Tamim Alnuweiri, InStyle, 31 May 2026
• That should be a death knell for nearly any team, much less one in a reset year.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 29 Dec. 2025
• But the disastrous debut did not prove a death knell for her dreams.
  — Alex Williams, New York Times, 15 June 2023
• Of course, no national flags could be a death knell for the Olympics.
  — Stephen Wade, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Mar. 2022
• And junk status isn’t a death knell for a company, by any stretch.
  — Taylor Locke, Fortune, 9 May 2022
• Thursday’s roadblock did not signal the death knell for the idea.
  — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Feb. 2022
• Comparisons with first in class are often the death knell for new kids on the block.
  — Kamal Ahmed, Fortune, 3 July 2026
• That’s my death knell, just can’t take it anymore, end of everything.
  — Andy O'Connor, SPIN, 24 May 2022
• Is this the ringing of the death knell for the office, or can a case be made for its future?
  — David Michels, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
• Despite that, though, sources have said this isn’t exactly the death knell for the show.
  — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 4 Sep. 2025
• Removal from these two app marketplaces is a death knell for any mobile app.
  — Scott Nover, Quartz, 22 Oct. 2022
• Drug lobbyists largely viewed it as a death knell for the package.
  — Rachel Cohrs, STAT, 23 July 2021
• But the return of live music doesn’t have to be the death knell of virtual events.
  — Raisa Bruner, Time, 30 Mar. 2021
• That should have been the death knell for the laundering method used by Chen and others.
  — Craig Silverman, ProPublica, 17 Jan. 2024
• Going down 3-0 is a near-certain death knell for the season.
  — Chris Branch, New York Times, 8 May 2026
• Tufte is right about the death knell of relentless sequencing.
  — Merrie Spaeth, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022
• Or will they be seen with regret, the Games that sounded the death knell for the Olympics?
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2022
• But a game with nothing happening is a death knell in an age of short attention spans.
  — Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 10 July 2021
• That’s usually a death knell against the best team in the NFC.
  — Marla Ridenour, USA TODAY, 26 Dec. 2021
• For an already-shaky coaching situation, that is what is known as a death knell.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2021
• That feels like a death knell for businesses who haven’t yet received their money—or have had their funds clawed back.
  — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
• When it isn't removed, rust can actually be the death knell of a favorite piece.
  — Mary Catherine McAnnally Scott, Southern Living, 21 Nov. 2025
• Their season was pretty much on the line here, as an 0-3 series deficit would have been a death knell.
  — Joe Smith, New York Times, 10 May 2026
• Everything over the past 24 hours should be a death knell for Azuki.
  — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Crypto, 1 July 2023