death knell

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the death knell

the reason why something fails and ends. Computer-operated machinery has been seen as the death knell for traditional skills. (often + for)

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Its recurrence was regular, but as slow as the tolling of a death knell. An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge by Bierce, Ambrose View in context When the spectral procession approached the altar, each couple separated, and slowly diverged, till, in the centre, appeared a form, that had been worthily ushered in with all this gloomy pomp, the death knell, and the funeral. From Twice Told Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context More results

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Its recurrence was regular, but as slow as the tolling of a death knell.

An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge by Bierce, Ambrose View in context

When the spectral procession approached the altar, each couple separated, and slowly diverged, till, in the centre, appeared a form, that had been worthily ushered in with all this gloomy pomp, the death knell, and the funeral.

From Twice Told Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context

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