Knell used in a sentence

Knell in a sentence as a noun

Just fyi, the phrase is "death knell" not "death nail.

It's hardly a death knell for Apple though.

This oddly sounds like a death knell for Windows.

Being "another walled garden thing" will hardly be its death knell.

Sure, that means I'm not as enamoured of it as I once was, but it's hardly a death knell.

Or had you been here in the 70's when cutbacks on defense work was the 'death knell' for the valley.

Facebook IPO disaster, coupled with Yelp and Groupon and the others, is the real death knell.

Especially for what amounts to a visual programming language, this is the death knell.

Knell in a sentence as a verb

OpenSSL just needs better code review and should follow the standards they are programming to. It's not the death knell for an entire programming language.

Does he just not count the weird edge cases when thinking about complexity?Type inference complaint> And this is the real death knell for Scala.

Asking a factory owner who is barely making payroll due to competition from China to boost his wages could be a death knell.

3 years ago I could no longer fall asleep before 5am and it was severely affecting my ability to concentrate, which as a software engineer is a death knell.

SQL was beginning to take off and when Microsoft introduced Access and made it easily accessible to the same customer base that dBase targeted it was the death knell.

It probably won't be the death knell, since Bitcoin users tend to be more sophisticated and used to complications like this, but the filing of this case is probably a sign that Mt Gox will be headed out as the market leader.

To anyone who considers Unity a death knell, I'd ask you to estimate how many projects are killed by innovating too much when people want stability, and compare it to how many projects die a slow, apathetic death because they've been standing still while the rest of the world moves on.