knell 的 3 个定义
- the sound made by a bell rung slowly, especially for a death or a funeral.
- a sound or sign announcing the death of a person or the end, extinction, failure, etc., of something: the knell of parting day.
- any mournful sound.
- to sound, as a bell, especially a funeral bell.
- to give forth a mournful, ominous, or warning sound.
- to proclaim or summon by, or as if by, a bell.
knell 近义词
chime
更多knell例句
- The government wanted to reduce labor and costs, but many growers view the law as a quality death knell.
- Last month, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sounded what many considered to be the death knell for the SNC.
- They wanted to sound the death knell for the campaign, file their stories, and get out of Memphis as soon as possible.
- When you have somebody working for your campaign, like Grooms, who says you can't win, that is the death knell for a candidate.
- I now consider it the death knell for traditional publishing.
- A knell from the church bell broke harshly on these youthful thoughts.
- The tones of the neighbouring convent bell, echoing through the stony vaults, sounded loud and awful as the knell of doom.
- It is not so now, for when the blacks revolted and drove their masters from the land, the death-knell of civilisation was sounded.
- When for mirth's yell earth's knell seemed pleaseSome dumb new grim great whim in him Made Jews take chalk for cheese.
- This date this pupil translates by the phrase, “Dock knell all” .