knell

Preposition: of

• stage-coaching: In 1838 the railroad ran from London through St Albans to Birmingham and sounded the death knell of stage-coaching.
• death: Every second the Prussians rung the knell of death with their artillery.
• industry: For a time, it appeared that this new juridical approach had sounded the death knell of the tax avoidance industry.

Converse of object

• sound: The violent end to the Jacobite rising of 1745 also sounded the death knell of Highland society.
• ring: Every second the Prussians rung the knell of death with their artillery.
• signal: The security breach and the violence in Parliament Square overshadowed the vote itself which anti-hunting campaigners hope will signal the death knell of foxhunting.
• spell: Incidentally, those who predicted the smoking ban would spell the death knell of the Irish pub couldn't have been more wrong.
• toll: Changes in finance could be quietly tolling the death knell for property companies anyway, he believes.
• hear: In this unpredictable, regional evolution can be heard the death knell for Mr Bush's " Greater Middle East Initiative.

Preposition: for

• industry: The move, if approved, is likely to sound the death knell for the quarantine industry in the UK.
• theory: Watkins must have sensed that this discovery rang the death knell for any theory regarding leys simply as tracks.
• policy: And events since September 11 have sounded the death knell for multiculturalist policies.
• business: Risk capital investors know that poor management is often the death knell for a business.

Adjective modifier

• funeral: Were there no ears on which the rude clamor of that noisy mirth struck as a funeral knell?
• doleful: Toll on, thou passing bell; Ring out my doleful knell; Let thy sound my death tell.
• final: This was the final death knell for the tramways, the last tram running at 4.30pm on 15 February 1930.

Noun used with modifier

• death: Is Norwich Union's closure of Hill House Hammond the death knell of the high street broker?