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  • noun Plural form of knell.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of knell.

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Examples

  • P2p and the digital media represent tremendous opportunities, not death knells.

    Us versus Them 2009

  • This is going to be a pretty simple November ... and the first of many coming death knells for Democrats ... unless the pull away from the precipice.

    NRA flips, endorses McDonnell over Deeds 2009

  • What would you say to a soft, brown face, aureoled in a thousand ripples of gray-black hair, which knells suddenly: “Do you trust white people?”

    DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

  • When I first started looking at the CNN death knells, in April, I spent a day watching coverage of the coal mining disaster in Montcoal, West Virginia, in which there was an on-going search for four trapped miners after a blast killed 25 of their colleagues.

    MP Nunan: What's Killing CNN? Live Television 2010

  • Before panic sets in amongst the electorate, five states already make do without the office (Oregon, Arizona, Wyoming, New Hampshire and Maine), and others are contemplating similar death knells, including Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, who would make the Secretary in State his next-in-line successor.

    Shawn Healy: Life Support for Lieutenant Governor 2010

  • Oh, and no death knells on all sides for national health care reform.

    William Bradley: What Scott Brown Knew In 2010 and Barack Obama Knew In 2008 2010

  • Oh, and no death knells on all sides for national health care reform.

    William Bradley: What Scott Brown Knew In 2010 and Barack Obama Knew In 2008 2010

  • Before panic sets in amongst the electorate, five states already make do without the office (Oregon, Arizona, Wyoming, New Hampshire and Maine), and others are contemplating similar death knells, including Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, who would make the Secretary in State his next-in-line successor.

    Life Support for Lieutenant Governor 2010

  • The first knells of the birds signal the end of the night; she doesn't have much time.

    The Other Shoe 2010

  • The first knells of the birds signal the end of the night; she doesn't have much time.

    The Other Shoe 2010

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