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Example sentences for "know how"

  • I should like to have you tell me, but I guess I know how to behave.

  • Mother sent this over, and wants to know how Mrs. Redburn does to-day.

  • I hope I know how to behave myself," replied Ann, rather crustily.

  • She was going to elope, and she should choose somebody's chauffeur, because he'd know how to go the farthest and fastest so her mother couldn't catch up with her and tell her how she ought to have done it.

  • Oh, Aunt Hannah, you don't know how good it seems to get into my music again!

  • To begin with, I don't know how to spell.

  • The society of your correspondent is not that balm to his spirit which he appeared to expect, and this in spite of the fact that I have been as gentle and kind with him as I know how to be.

  • I did n't know how to please you then, and I am far from supposing that I have learned now.

  • I have altogether got over that, and I don't know how I ever came to talk such nonsense.

  • I--you don't know how I've shrunk from wounding mother and you.

  • You don't know how I love him," she said brokenly, burying her face in the ends of the soft white shawl that was flung about her bare shoulders.

  • And now," she said, "I don't know HOW to tell them.

  • I don't know how I ever came to do it, Scarborough.

  • I think I know how to get work out of you.

  • You don't know how it makes me suffer to see you fond of another man," he cried.

  • It is going to take money from those who don't know how to keep or to spend it and give it to those who do know how.

  • An explorer from the deserts is not supposed to know how exclusive we are in our friendships in the Faubourg.

  • To love: what was that but to know how to plead, to beg for alms, to wait?

  • It might be if it was kept nice, but the maids are lazy, and I don't know how to make them mind.

  • You see I've been abroad a good many years, and haven't been into company enough yet to know how you do things here.

  • I don't know how you do it, but you are a born wheedler.

  • I don't know how to return," she murmured.

  • If so, I don't know how to enjoy my riches.

  • She on her part has promised to welcome no more addresses from you; and I trust, therefore, you will not attempt to force them upon her.

  • And less good beer than swipes," said a man with his hands in his pockets.

  • As an artistic indulgence she thought she would have such a bonnet.

  • I don't know how it is, but I just thought they did!

  • We should have to go on, for we don't know how to stop.

  • They will find the cake and they will gobble it up, because, having no mother, they don't know how dangerous 'tis to eat rich damp cake.

  • He wanted to know how early he might be admitted to-morrow.

  • She would have liked to know how he felt as to a meeting.

  • And such being the case," continued Mrs Smith, after a short pause, "I hope you believe that I do know how to value your kindness in coming to me this morning.

  • I don't know how you do it," said Mrs. Morel.

  • But," he said, "I don't know how to fight.

  • Yes," said Annie, "you don't know how badly my mother is!

  • But I ought to know how to put needles in.

  • I was not well- versed in the art of diplomacy and I didn't know how to go beyond his ability without hurting his pride.

  • Nor do I know how long he kept it nor whether he built it especially for that occasion.

  • I didn't know how to shoot dice nor play poker.

  • I was too young and timid to know how to tell him.

  • So we got his bicycle out and he got on it and he must have coasted for miles, I don't know how far.

  • I actually don't know how to get along without it.

  • But in the days when I didn't know how it was coming out, I was sensitive about it; so I kept quiet and worked, and allowed the other fellow to do the talking.

  • It's too far to walk and I don't know how to send it.

  • If this is not perfect, I don't know how to criticise it.

  • I've lived alone long enough to know how to do it in comfort.

  • I do think that I know how to manage Sir William.

  • If I hesitated at all, it is because I know how much is at stake, and because the thing is so sudden, so unexpected.

  • I don't know how I came to forget to lock it.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "know how" 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:
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