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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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
There was no bell to toll there—but at the very moment he was ascending the scaffold, a black cloud knelled thunder, and many hundreds of people all at once fell down upon their knees.
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by John Lyde Wilson
But its huge clocks had successively knelled three hours after midnight, and all continued still and silent as the grave.
From Quentin Durward by Sir Walter Scott
But when the trumpet's warring blast Had knelled the fate that tyrants know, They proved no laggards at the last, And sprang to meet their country's foe.
From Cap and Gown A Treasury of College Verse by Frederic Lawrence Knowles
To-morrow—” He fell silent; again in his heart that parting cadence knelled with keen and intolerable sorrow.
From Stepsons of Light by Eugene Manlove Rhodes
