The couple considered the decision a death knell for their project.

"It was never going to be the death knell of the company."

"Did you know that was the death knell for her?"

Critics fear it will be the death knell for public education.

The economic limitations of these plans may sound their death knell in the future.

These words fell on my soul like a kind of death knell.

This would, in effect, finally sound the death knell for the Convention.

To lose this would be a death knell for the bank's mission.

No one is sounding a death knell for service people yet, of course.

But the death knell had sounded years earlier for the P6.