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Example sentences for "know about"

  • What I really want to know about is being infected.

  • I suppose it's something that your mother must not know about.

  • And it would be awful for Father to know about it.

  • Much you simple country people can know about that!

  • She might have let us know about it beforehand, even if she is a lady and we what we always was.

  • You could say anything in confidence to your family-man; and you could inquire through him anything you might wish to know about my--about me.

  • If you will take a few steps," said the Harvester, "and make yourself comfortable on this log in the shade, I will tell you all I know about it.

  • If any man ever was a bigger fool than I am to-day, it would comfort me to know about it.

  • I didn't know about these, so I didn't do anything.

  • She'll little think I know about him; and, if I manage it well, I can break her spirit by this means and have her under my thumb.

  • Oh, I know about it; I have read The Scouring of the White Horse.

  • I want to know about Coprolites, if they dig them here, as they do at Cambridge.

  • I don't know about that; but it seems he had the power.

  • I don't know about that,' said Mr Arabin, gently laughing.

  • Well, my dear, you don't expect ordinary novel-readers to know about Mr Reardon.

  • Because Willie was in danger, and you felt I ought to know about it?

  • You must be well up, too, in military grades, know about Sandhurst, and so on.

  • What do I know about you, or your past record?

  • In place of a human heart, you have a wild harp, and that's all I know about you.

  • That's nearly all that I know about them, so don't overwhelm me with, any more questions.

  • That's what I want to know about people--Christian sufferings and all.

  • Well, I want to know about people," said Jack, "and I think it pays to ask them.

  • I don't know about Hannah--single women her age are kind of chancey--but I do know Caleb.

  • What Sarah don't know about everybody's private affairs she guesses and she always guesses out loud.

  • If folks knew what I know about you--" Kenelm interrupted, a most unusual thing for him.

  • S'posin' they knew what I know about you," he observed.

  • It's about something else--something I asked her that she was to let me know about.

  • I thought maybe as you didn't know about it.

  • I forgot that you didn't know about Tuppence," he said slowly.

  • Now, see here, Jane, there's something we want to know about.

  • But equally I've got something up my sleeve that you don't know about.

  • I don't know about that; I was not thinking of that; I think that Bianca would have been induced to listen to reason; I think that the scheme would have come to nothing through her renunciation of it.

  • And as for what I know about it, Signor Barone, maybe I have the means of knowing more about it than anybody here," said the poet.

  • Don't know about that; a man can always come to life, if he likes, in his own family.

  • The issue had been so satisfactory on the whole that it was considered advisable to tell James, who never failed to say day after day that he didn't know about Winifred's affair, he couldn't tell.

  • James went on in a fluster: "Why, what should I know about it?

  • But how was I to know about Lyon, my dear?

  • It is as easy to know about Socrates as about Franklin and General Grant.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "know about" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


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