Knell is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for KNELL in dictionary:

VERB:
• to sound a bell
• (of a bell) ring solemnly, especially for a death or funeral.
• proclaim (something) by or as if by a knell.
• To summon, as by a knell.
• ring as in announcing death
• make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification
• ring a knell
NOUN:
• the sound of a bell, especially when rung solemnly for a death or funeral.
• used in reference to an announcement, event, or sound that warns of the end of something
• sound of a bell, esp at a funeral or death
• The stoke of a bell tolled at a funeral or at the death of a person; a death signal; a passing bell; hence, figuratively, a warning of, or a sound indicating, the passing away of anything.
• To sound as a knell; especially, to toll at a death or funeral; hence, to sound as a warning or evil omen.
• the sound of a bell rung slowly to announce a death or a funeral or the end of something

Words related to KNELL

knelled12 knelling13 knells10

Words that contain KNELL

knells10 knelled12 knelling13 unknelled14

How to use KNELL in a sentence

• Clara, just when the bells of its church were ringing a funeral knell.
• Where were Knell and Poggin? Apparently they were not at present with the leader on the mountain.
• Duane could not see any other culmination of this series of events than a meeting between Knell and himself.
• And Knell, who sat there, tall, slim, like a boy in build, like a boy in years, with his pale, smooth, expressionless face and his cold, gray eyes.
• Knell stood quivering, but his face might have been a mask.
• The ecstasy endured a full five minutes, until a last tap of the bell tolled the knell of the tardy.
• If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours.
• The bell, as if by some mysterious agency, commenced tolling, and its sad knell sounded through that long night, over the bosom of the lone sea.
• He had his fingers in his ears to shut out the tolling of the knell for the man who had gone to be hanged.
• The hour of noon was fast approaching, and the bell of the cathedral heavily and solemnly tolled the knell of the unfortunate Spenser.
• No dynasty can look the fact of successful, triumphant self-government in the face without seeing a shroud in its banner and hearing a knell in its shouts of victory.
• One, two, three, spoke out the loud voice of Time, and it sounded in the ears of the watcher like his knell.
• The funeral knell was distinctly heard from the church tower, and greatly increased the effect which this simple and becoming service produced.
• Ring rebel yell, War cry and knell! The stars, to-night, will set in gloom.
• It sounded the knell of all hope of redress of their wrongs.
• Its death knell was struck when the noon-day darkness lifted from Calvary.
• The last cadence falls into the old sigh as the dread oracle sounds once more the knell of hope.
• That letter had been to Will as the passing knell of all he had ever hoped or desired.
• A knell speaks to each one in the sense of his own grief or of his own fear.
• It is used before n, as knell, knot, but totally loses its sound in modern pronunciation.
• Shouts of exultation rose from the garrison, which fell like the knell of death upon the ears of the besiegers, freezing on the plains.
• He spoke, but the sound rang in her ears like the knell of hopes for ever departed.
• Judith drew close to the window, and the merriment struck chill at her heart like the tolling of a knell.
• Thus despite everything the Fifteenth Amendment, and that alone, struck the death knell of slavery.

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