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Example sentences for "know something"

  • As the boys will wish to know something of the progress of business here, tell them that the cause of Freer and Van Vleeck has been this day put off by the defendants, on payment of costs, on an affidavit of the want of papers.

  • In a place where Burr thought himself a stranger, there is scarce any age or sex that does not, either from in formation or acquaintance, know something of him.

  • I am anxious to know something of it; not from patriotism, however.

  • I know something of the sweetness of being in the Church, that isle of light surrounded by a darkened world.

  • May we be able to think, as we turn to this threefold assertion of knowledge--"I know something of the security of this keeping.

  • I know something of the beauty of the perfect human life recorded by St. John, something of the continued presence of the Son of God, something of the new sense which He gives, that we may know Him who is the Very God.

  • When young gentlemen drag young ladies out of canals, their friends at home have a right to know something of the matter.

  • The weather was now mild and the bay smooth; the night was fine, and it might be of the last importance to us to know something more of our situation.

  • We spent a most delightful four days at their mission and learned to know something of our neighbors and of the work being accomplished at this oldest station in this part of the country.

  • This is not in any sense intended as a scientific treatise; yet even from a missionary point of view one needs to know something of the difficulties in the way.

  • Two of them have been government messengers and know something of European life.

  • Although nearly every one seems to know something of its immensity, yet very few persons realize it unless they have resided for a time in some portion of its vast interior; even then their knowledge of it is likely to be quite vague.

  • If he wants to know something, if he wishes to feel something, let him read Shakespeare.

  • We know something of the tides and currents of the mysterious sea--something of the circuits of the wayward winds--but we do not know where the wild storms are born that wreck and rend.

  • I owe you an apology for receiving your advances as I have done; but experience has taught me caution; and until I know something of those whom I encounter on the highway, I hold with them as little communication as I can well avoid.

  • Reinach whom we have quoted before completely overturns this false notion in some paragraphs which bring out better than any others that we know something of the true significance of the Thirteenth Century art in this particular.

  • I want to know something, and only you can tell me.

  • I have got to know something, and you can tell me.

  • You have to know something of the mind as well as the body," answered the priest; "we have to know something of the body as well as the mind.

  • He is, at least, a man, and we know something of men.

  • We know something about a man when we know what kinds of objects he will probably set before himself as aims.

  • All Christians have some knowledge of the theocratic state of the Hebrews, and we know something of the history of Christian Europe.

  • I have heard so much of you from Mrs. Temple, from Antoinette, that I know something of your strange life.

  • You ought to know something about it, I guess," the voice responded.

  • Although I am not a lawyer, I know something of the principles of law, and I understand that this and the Appropriations Committee are the most important.

  • Madame, I know something of him already," said the Baron, impatiently.

  • As for this Wilkinson of whom you speak, I know something of him.

  • I think that she grew rather angry with me, for she wanted to know something, and, as you can guess, I wanted to know a good deal.

  • Yes, I know something of that story; the conqueror was named Alexander, was he not?

  • It was her duty to know something of these, and of course she did.

  • Though I am not and never was an editor, I know something of the trials to which they are submitted.

  • I should be gratified, if Benjamin Franklin would let me know something of his progress in the French language.

  • I know something of law, and there's no question of going to prison.

  • Even a good and happy wife may be allowed to know something of men's weakness.

  • I happen to know something of the Ceccalde, and their temper; and, believe me, I am counselling you for the best.

  • There are some who profess to know something of it," she replied; "but your father never believed them.

  • The Child wished to know something of his new companions before he lost sight of all his old friends, so he politely asked them who they were.

  • There is a band of men in the White Town who profess to know something of the country from which the Black Ship comes, and who sends it.

  • Evidently, you believe that I do know something.

  • Before I tell you anything," replied Levendale, "I want to know something.


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