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Example sentences for "knockout"

Lexicographically close words:
knockers; knocketh; knocking; knockings; knockit; knocks; knockt; knog; knoll; knolled
  1. It would be a knockout blow to any hungry wayfarer.

  2. Then why is the question such a knockout to you and Miss Harriman?

  3. It was a portrait of Miss Goldie Raymond as Mitzi in the Viennese knockout of two continents--"Rudolph, Where Have You Been.

  4. Tom's mind, in some ways, was very, very simple, and now that he read the letter in relation to himself it was a knockout blow.

  5. He had just about conquered his misgivings and had begun to think how suspicious and ungenerous he was, when another question occurred to him which had the effect of a knockout blow to his peace of mind.

  6. At the same time he gazed for the first time at what he had been holding tightly clutched in his right hand ever since the knockout blow had been delivered.

  7. And fought me to a knockout finish later," mused Joe.

  8. He feared that Darrin could do whatever he willed, and shivered with wonder as to when the knockout blow would come.

  9. Farley's opinion was that Dave was done for, unless he could land some lucky fluke in a knockout blow.

  10. The smack of the Mexican's fist as it landed the knockout punch sounded like the slap of a paddle on water.

  11. His room was cheaply furnished and the walls of it decorated with prints of boxers, sporting life notables, knockout fight pictures and photographs of shapely bathing beauties in one-piece suits.

  12. Joe pulled his arms down from his face and Louie drew back his black-jack for the knockout blow.

  13. If I were fortunate enough to land a knockout blow with my left at the outset I'd finish him easily; but if he should play me and keep out of my reach he might get me winded so he could finally get the best of it.

  14. He ended the encounter by striking the man a regular knockout blow, and the fellow went down in a heap.

  15. I liked the rags so well that I paid the tramp to change clothes with me; he took mine and gave me his, along with a knockout blow for good measure.

  16. I'd stand for knockout blows down miles of road, if they would bring you back--every time.

  17. He never saw a bludgeon in his life; and he scorned knockout drops.

  18. The flattest glass of beer acquired the tang of illegality; the mildest claret punch struck a knockout blow at law and order; the harmless and genial company became outlaws, defying authority and rule.

  19. Why couldn't he have made it several quarts of brandy, or even knockout drops?

  20. I hope you don't want an innocent child of that age to know about knockout drops!

  21. I thought he was gonna be a knockout in this Shakespeare stuff.

  22. This troupe of Sweet Williams around him snickers right out loud in public at that, like the big guy was simply a knockout as a comedian.

  23. I was simply a knockout in that evenin' dress thing!

  24. Jed The Red wins by knockout over The Texan in fourteenth round," ran the red-inked caption.

  25. Jed The Red wins by knockout over The Texan in fourteenth round," he read again and again.

  26. Jim was carried home and ever after he bore upon his chin a scar that was the record of the final knockout from the teamster's iron fist.

  27. He says it was a deliberate knockout Sara gave Jim.

  28. I hunched my right shoulder and aimed a stiff knockout jolt at the officer's jaw.

  29. I set myself and sent a short knockout punch against his chin.

  30. The last that I have to say is that I have the vial of knockout stuff that you gave Tony to serve to Dalzell and myself, and I have also expert testimony as to the nature of the stuff.

  31. Yet, even his quick eyesight had failed to discover the knockout drops or powder which the wily Shepard had slipped into that disastrous glass of beer.

  32. American sport commentators who knew these facts in the record of Carpentier were disposed to announce before his match with Dempsey that he would most certainly seek to avoid a knockout by stopping as soon as he was hurt.

  33. Even his platitudes seemed to be knockout blows.

  34. In the morning, he would take Vickers' doctor to the Pink Lady and they would search it for knockout drops.

  35. He hadn't moved an inch, and Pinky chuckled softly at the potency of those knockout drops.

  36. Ch-chances are we'll find the kn-knockout drops.

  37. Two days ago, a man gave me a hundred dollars to stand for--for knockout drops on the run to-night.

  38. All through the struggle the staying power of the French provided example and created the necessary morale for the co-operating Allied forces, until our own gallant soldiers could be mustered and sent abroad for the knockout blow.

  39. He managed to slip me some knockout drops and got away yesterday.

  40. Larry Woolford began to say, “Are you sure that you aren’t interested in this move—” But it was then that the knockout drops hit him.

  41. Aside from treating Lawrence, here, to some knockout drops—and let us remember that Lawrence was present in the Professor’s home without a warrant—all we have is the suspicion that they have manufactured a quantity of counterfeit.

  42. I don’t know what kind of knockout drops the old boy gave you, but they sure worked.

  43. Jab the knockout needle right through the sleeve of his Archer, like we read in the manuals.

  44. And he found that he had an awful hangover from the knockout drug, and the slapping around he had received.

  45. The sealing gum in the Archer's skin worked effectively on the needle-like punctures, but the knockout drug had been delivered.

  46. Dey finds de food right by dere houses under de ice where dey ain't looking for no foul blow, and dey helps demselves and gits a knockout widout a show.

  47. What will de fellers say when we get back an' tell 'em we been fightin' outlaws an' that Oi gets a knockout from a sure-enough Injun?


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "knockout" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ace; ascendancy; beauty; blackout; catalepsy; championship; charmer; clincher; coma; conquest; crackerjack; crusher; dandy; deathblow; dream; enchantress; equalizer; faint; finisher; good; honey; kayo; knockout; landslide; looker; lovely; marvel; mastery; model; nifty; nothingness; oblivion; paragon; peach; picnic; quietus; settler; sleep; smash; stopper; stunner; stunning; stupor; subdual; subduing; success; sweetheart; swoon; syncope; triumph; whiz; win; winning