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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All started, as a deep groan knelled in their ears.
From Rookwood by William Harrison Ainsworth
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
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
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
Then the mournful answer knelled to her heart, and the recurrent spasms of that first agony slowly, surely settled into one dead pain, as the truth was seared into her knowledge.
From Children of the Mist by Eden Phillpotts
