knell
noun
the sound made by a bell rung slowly, especially for a death or a funeral.
knelling
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present participleof knell.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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In every traveler's eulogy there is a strain of elegy, and every traveler hearkens to the raven's knelling cry of "Nevermore."
From Time Magazine Archive
While many of the world's thinkers are worried about the proliferation of births, it is the knelling sound of death that keeps us awake at night.
From Time Magazine Archive
As she was walking o'er the fields, She heard the dead-bell knelling; And every jow the dead-bell gave, It cried, "Woe to Barbara Allen!"
From The Book of Old English Ballads by Hamilton Wright Mabie
And ever still, its knelling Crashes in upon my dreams.
From The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar by William Dean Howells
"You are forty-two, you are old, you are nobody," was knelling through her brain.
From The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
