Synonyms for death knell


Grammar : Noun

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Définition of death knell

  • As in death warrant : noun legal order to execute someone
Example sentences :
  • The failure to grasp this fact is the death knell of orthodox religion.
  • Extract from : « The Mistakes of Jesus » by William Floyd
  • The one word the Professor's Wife spoke was like a death knell.
  • Extract from : « What's He Doing in There? » by Fritz Reuter Leiber
  • He watched the clock now as a man who waits for the death knell.
  • Extract from : « The Forged Note » by Oscar Micheaux
  • The advent of this vessel was the death knell of the Indian tribes.
  • Extract from : « The Old Franciscan Missions Of California » by George Wharton James
  • Indeed there can be but little doubt that this event also sounded the death knell of Maya civilization.
  • Extract from : « An Introduction to the Study of the Maya Hieroglyphs » by Sylvanus Griswold Morley
  • At intervals of ten minutes the huge seventeen-inch shells fell, sounding the death knell of the beautiful old town.
  • Extract from : « The Great War As I Saw It » by Frederick George Scott
  • "I can write a few lines to her, and try," replied I mournfully, for the old man's words sounded like a death knell to my hopes.
  • Extract from : « Frank Fairlegh » by Frank E. Smedley
  • For the time being that seemed to sound the death knell of the common road steam-propelled vehicle.
  • Extract from : « Automobile Biographies » by Lyman Horace Weeks
  • Can they not grasp the fact that the influx of Americans and American capital sounds the death knell of slavery and peonage?
  • Extract from : « The Philippines Past and Present (Volume 2 of 2) » by Dean Conant Worcester
  • He was extremely perplexed, for to him it was as his death knell, and he commenced setting his house in order.
  • Extract from : « The Mysteries of All Nations » by James Grant

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