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Example sentences for "know the"

  • I know 'tis, as I know the heavens is over me ahint the smoke.

  • I know the bricks of this town, and I know the works of this town, and I know the chimneys of this town, and I know the smoke of this town, and I know the Hands of this town.

  • I am about to know the family, and may have much to do with them.

  • I know the ways of the Kaffir as no Englishman does.

  • We know the natives as no Englishmen can ever know them.

  • I know the fashion, but isn't this just carrying it a bit too far?

  • But he did know, however, that there were altogether too many generals for any one soldier to know the names of them all.

  • Only a few of us know the truth to be the contrary.

  • You appear to know the gentleman," said the general who had been conducting Barney's examination.

  • None knows and none must ever know the truth.

  • My eagerness to know the particulars of this tale was mingled and abated by my antipathy to the scene which would be disclosed.

  • I think I know the extent of my offences.

  • Thou art anxious to know the destroyer of thy family, his actions, and his motives.

  • She followed me, and renewed her passionate entreaties to know the cause of my distress.

  • The confused citizens gathered from all parts of the village, to know the cause of this commotion.

  • She knows the why and the how both; but I don't know the why; I only know the how.

  • I've seen her fix all these things so much that I can do them all just her way, though I don't know the law of any of them.

  • Why should he be so anxious to know the time at which a borrower of money is usually privileged to pay the money back?

  • In this suspense, I felt it would be a relief to me to get the meeting between us over, and to know the worst of it at once.

  • But I happen to know the story to which you allude; and I also know that a viler falsehood than that story never was told.

  • Did I know the gentleman's name and address?

  • We think that for a general about to fight an enemy, it is important to know the enemy's numbers, but still more important to know the enemy's philosophy.

  • If a man wishes to know the origin of human society, to know what society, philosophically speaking, really is, let him not go into the British Museum; let him go into society.

  • The difficulty comes in when we seek to know the substance of either of them.

  • You say that," she returned, "as if you wanted one immediately to know the worst.

  • If he was by an inexorable logic to pay for it he was literally impatient to know the cost, and he held himself ready to pay in instalments.

  • He liked always, where Lambert Strether was concerned, to know the worst, and what he now seemed to know was not only that he was bribeable, but that he had been effectually bribed.

  • He wants his good friend to know the best.

  • I suppose you'd know the--the "jugs" if you saw them again?

  • I know the names of some of them, but I will not tell you them because this is not meant to be instructing.

  • I don't know the state of your fortune, but I do know that you don't stick at money, and a benevolent man like yourself can certainly give two hundred thousand francs to the father of a family who is out of luck.

  • I don't know the street or number very well; it is in quite the other direction from here, but I know the house well, I will take you to it.

  • What a melancholy thing not to know the address of one's soul!

  • Words like the following could be heard there:-- "I don't know the names of the leaders.

  • The American learns to know the laws by participating in the act of legislation; and he takes a lesson in the forms of government from governing.

  • V Philip came gradually to know the people he was to live with, and by fragments of conversation, some of it not meant for his ears, learned a good deal both about himself and about his dead parents.

  • Soon he came to know the peculiarities of the small company, and by the casting could tell at once what were the characteristics of the persons in the drama; but this made no difference to him.

  • He was beginning to remember where each one was, and had less often to ask one of the assistants, when somebody wanted to know the way.

  • I know the ways of ghosts, and so do you.

  • It would be quite impossible for me to see you sad and nor take it upon my heart, so I desire to know the truth, whatever chagrin may result to me.

  • Upon my word," she said, "I know the truth of that remark; but that is no reason to believe that your misfortune is worse than mine.

  • No matter--I know the news, and I write to tell you so.

  • Well, Marian, when our other resources have failed us, I mean to know the Secret.

  • I don't know the rights of the story myself--all I know is I got the place.

  • I help you, Walter, when I don't know the man?

  • I met the child, proud I know the girl, longing to meet the woman!

  • I suppose she never had a thimble on her finger in her life, but she'll know the feelin' o' one before she's ben here many days.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "know 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:
    ammoniacal solution; eighteen hours; hear thee; know also; know any thing about; know each; know full; know her; know just; know little; know naught; know none; know ourselves; know what was the; know what you mean; know when; knowing good and evil; knowing the; known from; known species; known unto; known weight; knows nothing; looks down; this story; wide enough