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Example sentences for "kneed"

Lexicographically close words:
knead; kneaded; kneading; kneads; knee; kneel; kneele; kneeled; kneeleth; kneeling
  1. He had been regarding with interest a shackled-kneed varlet holding a halberd in his arms as if it had been a fractious bairn.

  2. Booth found that a tragedy in real life could no more be enacted without greasy-faced and knock-kneed supernumeraries than upon the mimic stage.

  3. Would they probably die game, or grow weak-kneed in the last extremity?

  4. When Comrade Bannerman had robbed the rich and piled their corpses in a Caesar's column, would not the knock-kneed uplifter break my legs in making all men equal?

  5. I still heard the voice of the knock-kneed reformer who envied my husky limbs.

  6. You're like a lot of other damned, weak-kneed polecats.

  7. Caldwell; "Lawler ain't so weak-kneed as the rest of us critters.

  8. This remark fairly terrorized the weak-kneed cadet and he promised not to say a word about smoking.

  9. Captain Putnam, and striding forward he caught the weak-kneed cadet by the arm.

  10. From Bud's description of Delton he's sort of a weak-kneed type.

  11. I made the acquaintance of the editor, who, I must confess, spite of my enthusiasm, soon struck me as a rather weak-kneed and altogether unadmirable character.

  12. Applehead's calves were branded, to the youngest pair of knock-kneed twins which Happy Jack found curled up together cunningly hidden in a thicket.

  13. While Nan was still intensely excited over this letter from Scotland, Toby Vanderwiller drove up to the Sherwood house behind his broken-kneed pony.

  14. Still with the bent-kneed swing he struck back to the road, and avoiding the crossroads, went across more fields to a lane where Jean waited with the car.

  15. Instead, he walked with the bent-kneed swing of the French infantryman, that tireless but awkward marching step which renders the French Army so mobile.

  16. Sally Blake and a bare kneed lad began to amble behind the foreigners, he taking his cue smartly and lolling out his tongue.

  17. That silent being whom she had taken under her care recoiled from the blow which the bare kneed boy instantly gave him, and without defending himself or her, shrank down in an attitude of entreaty.

  18. Defn: Geniculated; forming an obtuse angle at the joints, like the knee when a little bent; as, kneed grass.

  19. The weak-kneed among us will profess to believe in his promises, and the Regulation will be reduced to less than an hundred.

  20. The awns may be straight, hooked, or kneed (i.

  21. The lower pair of paleƦ are devoid of awns and enclose the caryopsis: the upper pair have stamens only, and the outer palea has a dorsal kneed awn, not twisted or hooked.

  22. The dorsal twisted and kneed awn is very characteristic.

  23. When the catastrophe occurred, five or ten of the weak-kneed had rushed from the building, and even as these guilty ones stood there, there was a clatter of arms outside.

  24. Repeated observations of this tendency have deprived me of that knock-kneed reverence for Business Interests which is the glorious heritage of every true American.

  25. For Gray was a tall, thin, bony-kneed man, with long flat feet like wedges of cheese.

  26. Two of them lifted from the floor the man whom Morgan had fought, and supported him in a weak-kneed advance upon the bar.

  27. Two of them were creatures of the opposing gambling factions, the other a weak-kneed fellow with the pale eyes of a coward, put forward by the conservative business men who deplored much shooting in the name of the law.

  28. What had become of that knock-kneed horse wrangler from Bitter Creek they had heard so much about?

  29. A knock-kneed man with a string of slat-ribbed calico horses and cayuses following him, waded downward through the middle of it.

  30. They passed Jim Carey herding some lank-bodied, big-kneed calves before him.

  31. Jake faced to the front again and saw Kent and Abe Bolton, and the rest of the boys rush forward, leaving him and a score of other weak-kneed irresolutes standing alone behind.


  32. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kneed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.