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Example sentences for "knew the"

  • For though the figure and the scene Were never to be reconciled, I knew the man as I had known His image when I was a child.

  • When I came back, I knew the Master's eyes Were looking into mine.

  • He could eat food of which he knew the savor, But had no palate for the Bread of Life, That human desperation, to his thinking, Made famous long ago, having no other.

  • The king said little in reply, but looked angry, as he thought he knew the truth of the matter better than it was now represented.

  • He dreamt one night that he saw King Harald's fleet coming to land, and he knew the land to be England.

  • He knew the roads in all the Upland hills, and was well known to all the great people.

  • Death I feared not, but I would not die until I knew the happiness of mutual love--But how tell of what I felt!

  • We knew the tones of our voices too well to be able to hide from each other our least emotion.

  • I knew then the meaning of tears of happiness; I knew the joy a man feels in bringing happiness to another.

  • I will not dwell on the alarm I felt at seeing the countess pale and shrunken; I knew the injury I might do by showing it and was careful to express only joy at seeing her.

  • I knew the strength of the heavy lock--I knew the thickness of the nailed oak--I knew the hopelessness of assailing the one and the other by ordinary means.

  • He had a thousand anecdotes about the famous battles; he knew the position of every regiment and the loss which each had incurred.

  • Before long, he knew the names of all the masters and the principal boys as well as little Rawdon himself.

  • We've got to work in the dark, for the colonel would die first if he knew the truth, before he would accept help even indirectly.

  • He knew the quality of the flesh under him, and that it would not be absent at the call.

  • Only he knew the great, the mighty obsession that was slowly withdrawing itself from his heart.

  • He looked up quickly, though he knew the voice.

  • He knew the value of that hail, and how only one year ago his name had been spewed from out those selfsame laudatory mouths with venom and contempt.

  • Never a squire of dames, he knew the part.

  • He knew the blood of her--loyalest of the loyal.

  • Bernini went down to the basement, obfuscated; for he knew the visitor.

  • Hadn't she let him know that she knew the author of that advertisement offering to buy the drums, no questions asked?

  • He didn't predict the future, he knew the past--often a more dangerous thing.

  • I knew the horse he rode; it belonged to the butcher, who lets it out now and then to M.

  • He knew the Abbe de Gondy only by report.

  • He knew the rapidity of decision and action that characterized his enemies and resolved to act with reference to that.

  • He knew the ways of the one, and not the ways of the other.

  • It was almost dark before he reached the top, but he knew the surface of Glashgar nearly as well as the floor of the cottage.

  • I knew the kind, so thick and so close of texture that it could resist the rain and not be soaked through after hours of wetting.

  • He saw before him an unhappy girl, knew the futility of attempting to convince her husband or her, and, though the whole situation was absurd and preposterous, he resolved to surrender.

  • And at last he knew the meaning of life and why he had been born.

  • He knew the story in the hands of the Transcontinental.

  • For Trompe-la-Mort, like a great general, knew the person of every one of his army.

  • He could not himself even act to the best advantage unless he knew the truth .

  • He knew his man and he knew the truth of what he had himself said, and he felt, with all the strength of his base soul, how best he could torture him.

  • He knew the type of man fully; and knew also that in all probability it would not be long before he would come to the Firm again on a borrowing errand.

  • He knew the nobility of her nature and must trust it to the end.

  • He had been, as he said, often in the crypt at Carstone; and well he knew the sordidness of the chamber of death.

  • He knew the feeling to be the same as what he had felt on the Friday evening, but he had no idea of the cause, and as soon as the giddiness left him he thought there was nothing the matter with him.

  • I knew the Sunchild; and I more than once heard him speak of God and Mammon.

  • He knew the danger he should run in returning over the preserves without a permit, but his curiosity was so great that he resolved to risk it.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "knew the" 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:
    could obtain; gold snuff; himself should; knew also; knew enough; knew full; knew himself; knew just; knew more; knew nothing; knew something; knew thee; knew them; knew they; knew very; knew where; knew you; knew you would come; lower stage; poor creatures; profound darkness; single card; standard time; thirty miles; throwing himself; yet was