She can make a good thirty-five knots, and that's useful when you're in a hurry.
She is 5,600 tons, built with the clipper bows and lines of a yacht, and when oil is sprayed upon her coal furnaces can steam at over twenty-five knots.
The Queen Elizabeth battleships, designed to carry 15-inch guns and to have a speed of twenty-five knots, mount eight guns only against the ten of the earlier and more lightly armed super-Dreadnoughts.
We sailed down this magnificent bay with a light wind, the tide, which was running out, carrying us at the rate of four or five knots.
I'm damned if I believe in your forty-five knots," replied Captain Hawkins, shortly.
If I remember rightly, they were three hundred and fifty feet long and did thirty-five knots," I continued.
Their cruising speed was something like forty-five knots.
The skipper's first act was to shake up the second watch-officer, who also happened to be acting as chief engineer of the ship, and to pass him the word to speed the ship up to twenty-five knots.
Up through the speaking-tube came a voice just then to say that we were making twenty-five knots.
They were travelling at the rate of about twenty-five knots, and the whistling grew louder moment by moment.
And starting the engine again he ran into the open river, and rushed up-stream against a strong current at the rate of twenty-five knots.
Assisted by the current, and with the engine at little more than half speed, it skimmed along at the rate of at least twenty-five knots.
There is a method of preparing this country with a type of submarine which may be navigated, so to speak, at much greater speed than that called for by the 1914 Congress; namely, twenty-five knots.
Gradually speed worked up to five knots, as the little captor and her comparatively large prize drew away from the dangerous shore.
Less than two miles from shore, and pelting onwards at a good twenty-five knots, was a British destroyer.
At twenty-five knots the Paradox was soon within range of her twelve-pounders.
On the whole, however, five knots might be set down as her average speed, under the pressure of the ordinary trades, and with whole canvas, and a little off the wind.
But Betts had his anchorage already in his eye, and away he went, with the wind on his quarter, towing his prize at the rate of four or five knots.
In a favourable time, with the wind a little free, five knots in the hour was about the maximum of the boat's rate of sailing, though it was affected by the greater or less height of the sea that was on.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "five knots" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
