All his superiors spoke well of him, because he knew how to hold his tongue and his pen at the proper times.
When she thought that the children knew how to manage by themselves, she left them, and returned to her spinning-wheel.
Ben made no reply to this taunt at the moment; but the next day, when Hal's new bow and arrow came home, he convinced him that he knew how to use it very well.
Mr. Morton's fortune was in her eyes small, and she was beginning to learn that he knew how to take care of his own money.
A regular hunting man like Lord Rufford knew how to compass the difficulties of distance in all hunting countries.
Anyhow, he seemed to be my last resort, and I was determined to make my appeal to him as effective as I knew how As he had always seen me shabbily clad, I decided to overwhelm him with a new suit of clothes.
In doing so I made it as appallingly vivid as I knew how.
I found an intoxicating satisfaction in conveying the facts as faithfully as I knew how.
I said: "I wish I knew how to play on a real fiddle, don't you?
I addressed him in Yiddish, making it as near an approach to German as I knew how, but my efforts were lost on him.
He knew how to speak, and how to look, how to use a knife and fork, how to dress himself, and how to walk.
From a great altitude he looked down upon Sexty Parker and men of Sexty's class, because of his social successes, and because he knew how to talk and to look like a gentleman.
Lopez, with all the scorn which he knew how to throw into his voice.
Sir Timothy had his grievances and meant to have his revenge, but he knew how to choose his own time.
Then the father told the story as well as he knew how.
I could swear, sir," she protested, "that I knew how my husband spent every hour of his life.
He knew how to speak to infuriated creditors, how to handle them, and what strings can be made to vibrate within them.
Because you were fully satisfied that I knew how to handle the cards.
He perceived that Montague had made a little struggle and had been cowed; and he knew how hard it is for one man to persevere against five or six, and for a young man to persevere against his elders.
Mr Longestaffe, with as much thunder as he knew how to throw into his voice.
His mind was not capacious, but such as it was it was his own, and he knew how to use it.
Therefore he relaxed the frown,--as well as he knew how, and softened his face towards her, and turned again to his work.
Hitherto it had been banished as well as he knew how to banish it.
He knew how to appeal to the self-interest of his fellows, and in time those who had most to do with him trusted him least when he seemed most generous in his offers.
They, at least, knew how to paint--to paint passion and character; some of them could paint soul.
He was struggling as best he knew how; for the solemnity which Lily had imparted to him had not yet vanished from his spirit.
I knew how it was going to be from the very first," said Bell.
When noble blood was called in question he never alluded specially to his own, but he knew how to speak as one of whom all the world was aware on which side he had been placed by the circumstances of his birth.
And he knew how to talk, and had in him something which justified talking.
I did him just as well as I knew how, making allowance for the slickness of oils.
And seeing that I said nothing thereto, he gave me a queer look and bade me treat them as civilly as I knew how.
Austen said nothing, and after some desultory conversation, in which he knew how to indulge when he wished to conceal the fact that he was baffled, the Honourable Hilary departed.
Mr. Crewe was too big for resentment, but he knew how to meet people who didn't measure up to his standards.
He had painted it himself; for he knew how to do a little of everything, and badly.
The children loved him because he knew how to make charming little trifles of straw and cocoanuts.
The king did not only gather millions together; he knew how to disburse them worthily.
I started to beg from him, and he asked me if I knew how to assist at mass.
I started off toward Madrid, begging along the way since that was something I knew how to do very well.
And there, while putting up with all kinds of indignities, she managed to raise my little brother until he knew how to walk.
So that's what happened to me during those days with my third poor master, this squire, and all the time I was wishing I knew how he'd come to this place and why he was staying here.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "knew how" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
