knell
noun
the sound made by a bell rung slowly, especially for a death or a funeral.
knelled
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past participleof knell.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof knell.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
knellnounthe sound made by a bell rung slowly, especially for a death or a funeral.
Example Sentences
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As I stood there in the pulpit, busying me to teach the commandment of GOD, there knelled a sacring-bell; and therefore mickle people turned away hastily, and with great noise ran from towards me.
From Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse by Various
The wind howled around me—I felt impatient and benumbed—and, as I stood irresolute, with a moaning chime the church bell knelled upon my ear.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 by Various
At the same time the sad "too late, too late," was knelled in my ears, and I thought of the might-have-been, and rode the merry-go-round of regret's banalities.
From The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel by William John Locke
Although their beating hearts with ours kept time, Although their clinging hands we fondly held, We could not walk the path they had to climb, Hardly we heard the death-call when it knelled.
From Memorial Day and Other Verse by Helen Leah Reed
I cannot guess nor tell; only it comes and comes, As from a vaster world beyond my door, From centuries of eld, the death of freedom knelled, A host of mortal fears at my door.
From Behind the Arras A Book of the Unseen by Thomas Buford Meteyard
