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Example sentences for "knew nothing"

  • Even if he had had a longer look, I doubt whether I should have got more out of him, for he knew nothing of architecture, and I fear his test whether a building was good or bad, was whether it looked old and weather-beaten or no.

  • When he asked at what hour Miss Boncassen was expected home, the man answered him, just as though he had been anybody else, that he knew nothing about it.

  • Though he cared nothing for the making of laws, though he knew nothing of finance, though he had abandoned his legal studies, still he worked hard.

  • As he bade her good morning next day he was aware that he knew nothing of what she was thinking, but, as he reflected with some bitterness, even this was an advance upon the ignorance of the previous mornings.

  • He became less serious, and rather less dictatorial at home, for he was apt to hear Mary laughing at him, and telling him, as she was fond of doing, that he knew nothing at all about anything.

  • It annoyed him that she should have plans of which he knew nothing; but he felt that he had no right to press her further.

  • Mr Arabin, when he saw Eleanor, could not succeed in looking or in speaking as though he knew nothing of all this.

  • Of Mr Slope's little adventure in the garden he knew nothing.

  • He knew nothing of that beautiful love which can be true to a false friend.

  • I knew nothing of my men when--when I was in England; we none of us did; but I can very well believe what you say.

  • But I knew nothing, and I longed for the gold watch.

  • Even then, when I knew nothing by comparison with what I know now, I looked at the family lawyer with an interest which I had never felt before in the presence of any man breathing who was a total stranger to me.

  • He knew nothing of what she had been doing out there.

  • There was more distraction in the thought of getting away out into this vast world of which he knew nothing yet.

  • I knew nothing of the public men of the State.

  • Of the State charitable and penal institutions I knew nothing.

  • There was not a subject he knew nothing of.

  • Seryozha recounted the events themselves well enough, but when he had to answer questions as to what certain events prefigured, he knew nothing, though he had already been punished over this lesson.

  • Nine tenths of the men, and still more of the women there, knew nothing of the wearer, or his cause, beyond that.

  • The man swore he knew nothing of the lost weapon, and brought his gun to the charge.

  • As I never heard him allude to the doctrine of Pythagoras, as he had no leaning to Buddhism, and, as I am sure he knew nothing of the correlation of forces, it must be admitted that the conception was an original one.

  • But at this time I knew nothing of the treasure that was hid in Her, which is the third among the pyramids--would I had never known of it!

  • For I knew nothing of the trouble at her heart.

  • But he laughed at her, telling her the Pyramid was the burying-place of the divine Khufu, and that he knew nothing of its secrets.

  • At first he cried pitifully that he knew nothing of the royal child, then he tried to barter what he knew for his life.

  • They had hoped to learn something from him, and he knew nothing.

  • A military road, or he knew nothing--one along which motor-lorries could make express time.

  • At any rate, he knew nothing of my presence at this shoot.

  • Again I explained, reiterating that I knew nothing of the transaction.

  • But the worst part of the business was that I knew nothing.

  • He knew nothing of his personal relations with Mr. Stener, and did not know Mr. Stener personally.

  • He knew nothing of the sixty-thousand-dollar check transaction.

  • He knew how to keep books, he said, though he knew nothing of the details of the grain and commission business.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "knew nothing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    both great and small; garden plants; great profit; knew about; knew enough; knew every; knew how; knew more; knew must; knew not; knew nothing; knew thee; knew their; knew they; knew well; knew what; knew where; knew would; know her; other animals; seems likely; she sat; still going; taking leave; theological virtue; winters south