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Example sentences for "know"

Lexicographically close words:
knotting; knotts; knotty; knout; knouted; knowable; knowd; knowe; knowed; knowen
  1. I've got you entirely in my power, and you know it.

  2. By honest industry and a generous disregard of what went into the newspaper, so that it paid, he had raised himself to the highest rung of fortune's ladder, and we all know what tall ringing that is.

  3. I do not venture to make any alteration in the orthography of the first and second epistles, as I do not know what dictionary may be authoritative in Whelpville.

  4. Of course we know where the English Sparrow spends his Christmas.

  5. We know several instances where children of eight and ten years have become by its use so familiar with many birds that they can draw and paint them from memory with considerable fidelity.

  6. But he didn't tell us not," said Harry; "and I know he would like the eggs.

  7. I know who it was," said Harry, laughing, as he inspected the opening at the bottom of the trap, through which everything that had entered must have escaped.

  8. He would know that we should not go directly afterwards.

  9. Think I don't know how long it takes to drive over to station?

  10. They very soon heard the harsh cry of the jay, who was letting all the inhabitants of the woodlands know that enemies were at hand, and away flew the birds.

  11. Never mind; let's go and tell Mrs Benson, I know she will let us rest a little while.

  12. I won't stop; for I know you'll be plaguing my very life out.

  13. You wants to know how the wopses' nest is a gettin' on.

  14. I know who they are,--there's Bill Jenkins, and the two Stapleses.

  15. It was all I could squeeze out," said he; "and from what I know of the matter you design to meddle in, I can only pray God that it may prove sufficient.

  16. I know it," said I, "but the thing goes against me.

  17. Alison Hastie in Limekilns was the lass that rocked your cradle when you were too small to know of it, and walked abroad with you in the policy when you were bigger.

  18. I know this was a great blot on my character, for which I was lucky that I did not pay more dear.

  19. Well, I know Duncan, and you give him the true name!

  20. You know what this is, whose father lies in danger.

  21. I know it, Davie, I am loving you for the pain of it; it was done defending that bad man, my father.

  22. That will be the last I'll can tell of myself; ye know the lave {26} as well as I do.

  23. And now, if you will compute the outlay and your own proper charges, I would be glad to know if I could get some spending-money back.

  24. I do not know if she understood, I believe not; but I was completely satisfied, and sat strengthening my mind for what should follow.

  25. Most men don't know their own mind when it comes to marryin'.

  26. I think then that I began to know my power over you.

  27. It was enough that she should know that this great doctor Anthony had his weaknesses.

  28. You know the old man and his son were drowned in a dreadful accident.

  29. I don't know any other way," wailed Miss Matthews.

  30. Don't you know that my only desire is to serve you?

  31. You don't know how humble I felt to think that I might have hurt him.

  32. Because I'd rather have you with me, you venturesome youth--then I should know you were safe.

  33. This is the extent as far as I know of Savory's claim to be the inventor of the atmospheric engine.

  34. You know Cousin Carl wrote that they were making excursions every day to the old châteaux near there, and I think it quite probable they will be away.

  35. I know that you would like to look into Miss Barton's jewel-box.

  36. I learned to know her first in that long siege at Strasburg.

  37. You know they had to leave," she continued, turning to the girls.

  38. A New York girl whom I know very well is to be there too, and we are looking forward to all sorts of larks.

  39. They were curious to know how much the dog's training would benefit his master, under the circumstances, if he should be lost.

  40. Ranald said last night that he wouldn't be in the play if he had to learn a lot of foolishness to speak, or if he couldn't be disguised so that nobody would know him," said Kitty.

  41. If I'd only believed that it was because she hadn't been brought up to know any bettah that she acted so horrid, and that all the time she really wanted to be liked!

  42. A girl as old as you oughtn't to go travellin' till you know how to behave yo'self in a hotel.

  43. You know what she said she'd do to you if you called me anything but Fidelia.

  44. Long after Betty was asleep she went on repeating to herself the last lines: "I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air, I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care.

  45. You know a great deal, perhaps, of this society for the training of ambulance dogs," said Mrs. Walton.

  46. World Universal will know We shall fight to a finish, in front or at bay.

  47. She has no spirit, and those who know her mother are not surprised.

  48. Of course," he replied, "she would know me; there was never womankind yet Forgot the effect she inspired.

  49. When a man tells you after this that the planet of Saturn is not inhabited, tell him that you know better, that it is not only inhabited, but that the married couples up there have family fights the same as on this mundane sphere.

  50. I've studied owls, And other night fowls, And I tell you What I know to be true; An owl cannot roost With his limbs so unloosed.

  51. She seemed to know there was trouble, and galloped as free and fair And even a gait as she ever struck when she was a five-year-old: The knowingest beast we ever had, and worth her weight in gold.

  52. A tiny tot of six or seven, From fireside fresh she seemed; Of such a little one in heaven I know one soldier dreamed.

  53. To know if between the land and the pole I may find a broad sea-way.

  54. Then her red come back like the tide Down to the Bay o' Fundy; An' all I know is they was cried In meetin' come nex' Sunday.

  55. Well, no, not so much with Mathy as with his brother Bill; but I know him like a book; fact I might say like several books.

  56. Now we must take off our things, Gracie, for you know papa always says we mustn't keep them on in the house, and that we must put them away in their places.

  57. I know it's Cousin Ronald," laughed Rosie, "and indeed I should hope he was neither cold nor hungry here in our house.

  58. I know that you are, and always will be, a most welcome guest in my daughter's house.

  59. And we didn't know we were to have any at all.

  60. Papa, you always do know best about everything.

  61. I know my little girl wants to improve, and I shall do all I can to help her.

  62. You know mamma always gives thousands of dollars every year to home and foreign missions, and other good causes, and she says that this time she will let each of us choose a cause for her to give a thousand to.

  63. Yes; and I know it has been hard for you," he said, smoothing her hair with caressing hand.

  64. No, I will but play the man with you: why, you know 'tis nothing.

  65. You are deceivd, Sir, And doe not know his nature that gave promise Of his assistance.

  66. But doe you know the Castle Belonging to Modesbargens Aunt or Cosen,-- Which 'tis I know not?

  67. All I am You know you may commaund: Ile nere enquire What 'tis you goe about, but trust your counsailes As the Auncients did their Oracles.

  68. You have one life to come in that lease, yet I thank you: I am free, and that's inheritance; for ought I know she may serve us both.

  69. If you did know the mistery you would applaud 'em.

  70. Assured danger, gentlemen, for all our men Already are in a palsye and doe flye They know not whither.

  71. I know him valiant; But I am doubly armd, both with a Courage Fiery as his can be, and with a cause That spitts his accusation full in the face.

  72. A man hanging and tottering and tottering, As you know the wind will wave a man.

  73. Noe matter for that, Bunch; with the Judges leave weele here their confession before they come, that we may know the better to state the cause when they doe come.

  74. Her fathers footman was here; she is a knights daughter And heire, but she does not know it yet.

  75. He triumphd in the odds he had of me, And he shall know that from the Spanish race Revenge, though nere so bloudy, is not base.

  76. I warrant you, Sir: I know 'em well enough.

  77. Beside, all reverence to the calling, I Have vowd never to marry, and you know Love may bring a Man toot at last, and therefore My fine Gewgaw do not abuse me.

  78. We know that they can be thus cleansed, and that it can be easily accomplished with benefit to the diseased canals.

  79. They truly cannot know too much for their own good in this regard; an ignorant patient can not do justice either to himself or to his physician.

  80. No doubt the readers of the preceding chapters on proctitis and its numerous symptoms--noted under separate headings--would like to know something about the home treatment for such an insidious and grave disease.

  81. We ought to be wisely interested in choosing the proper foods for our daily needs and in having them properly prepared; we ought to know how much carbohydrates we need, how much proteids, and regulate our diet accordingly.

  82. But often he doesn't know how; he needs enlightening.

  83. My professional brethren at least ought to know that the idea of such harm is sheer nonsense.

  84. I don't care for the various and numerous names you give to these fistulas: what I should like to know is, How does it come about that I, an apparently healthy person, have such a nasty disease?

  85. There are hundreds of preachers and not a few ordained ministers who cannot read or write, and many more who know very little of God's Word.

  86. May the dear Father open our eyes to see His work and to know the joy of self-denying service for Him!

  87. I know that you will rejoice with us in this great blessing.

  88. I know they can't be beaten, but I intend to leave a report on what you've tried!

  89. He didn't know when there would ever be anything to do.

  90. The engineer opened the port and spoke hostilely out of it: "D'you know there's a lady in this thing?

  91. He felt that he ought to say something, and he did not know what.

  92. Actually I was on the way in here when I heard--references to myself it would embarrass Chuka and your cousin to know I heard.

  93. Of the Indians they know enough by tradition to hold them in considerable dread, on account of their cruel and ferocious manners.

  94. This was not to be wondered at among people who scarcely know what a free gift is among themselves; but they were not long in getting rid of all delicacy or hesitation on this score.

  95. We cannot tell, as we do not know her mother's Christian name.

  96. You know all about the lady, I imagine," said Lord Mohun.

  97. Mr. Norway said, 'I know what you are about.

  98. I don't know whether it was broken; I never saw it afterwards; and I do not know what became of it.

  99. Anything may be said, as that the cow jumped over the moon, but that a saying may be believed we must know who uttered it.

  100. We did not know whom we stopped till when my brother snapped the pistol at him.

  101. We took money in a purse, but I do not know how much it was.

  102. We do not know much about his origin, and why he was named Peters; he was the son of a Thomas Dickwood, alias Peters, and Martha, daughter of John Treffry of Treffry.

  103. In his will Theodore mentions only his wife Martha, and we do not know who was his father.

  104. He liked to be thought to know more than any of his fellow pupils.

  105. I know that; but he has an air above a simple /gentilhomme/.

  106. You know her Memoirs, then," said Madame de Ventadour, slightly colouring.

  107. You know that I have engaged the apartment for the next three months.

  108. I know your chivalric honour--your tender heart; I know how faithful you would be to one who had sacrificed for you.

  109. You do not yet know your own mind; you would choose your partner from some visionary caprice, or momentary impulse, and not from the deep and accurate knowledge of those qualities which would most harmonize with your own character.

  110. Oh, no; not Colonel Bellfield; I know him--how amusing he is!

  111. Obada had met Paula's father in the battle-field by Damascus, and it had often roused his ire to know that this hero's name was held famous even among the Moslems.

  112. It is one I am little apt to use, but I know no other for such as she is, and on her it is not ill-bestowed.

  113. Katharina's whole being was in wild revolt; she did not know how she was able to return Heliodora's greeting, and to ask her how she could possibly play the lute with a headache.

  114. He replied that she would know all about it soon enough, and he accompanied the interpreter's repetition of the answer with threatening gestures.

  115. But I know what has blinded your clear eyes, poor little kitten.

  116. You know the secrets and the wisdom of the ancients!

  117. A soul so pure and clear as yours is not to be found in the capital, but we still know how to be friends to our friends--at any rate I and my husband do--and if Heaven but grants me the opportunity you shall prove it.

  118. I know a man to whom oatmeal is a poison.

  119. We scarcely know what services microbes may render us, yet the study of them, which has but recently been begun, has already shown, through the remarkable labors of Messrs.

  120. It would be interesting to know more about the habits of this peculiar species, about which so little has been written.

  121. All of us have seen wine when exposed to air gradually sour, and become converted into vinegar, and we know that in this case the surface of the liquid is covered with white pellicles called "mother of vinegar.

  122. Yet, deep down in your heart, you know he was talking piffle.

  123. I don't know his name, and I've never seen him.

  124. Did the Phantom know about the secret drawer and how to open it?

  125. You're done for, and you know it," said the policeman impressively.

  126. There was something at once puzzling and ominous about the open exit, and he could not know what awaited him in the bedroom at the end of the tunnel.

  127. You ought to know that the Gray Phantom never surrenders.

  128. At that moment the Phantom would have given a great deal to know what was going on in the mind of the man he was watching.

  129. There's a big job on, but only two or three are in the know of it.

  130. I don't know how you managed it, but you seem to have a special talent for such performances.

  131. The 'doc' didn't know that you had kidnaped him.

  132. I guess you know what a thoroughgoing bunch the Duke's men are.

  133. The Gray Phantom is the only man I know who would pass up some fifty thousand dollars' worth of diamonds after taking the trouble to steal a gewgaw worth about two bits.

  134. You seem to know something about it yourself," remarked the Phantom pointedly.

  135. Seriously speaking, I consider him quite a phenomenon in his way; and it is right you should know that he affords a very fair specimen of a sharp, clever, French servant.

  136. Sir, I know he will never part with it even for that large sum.

  137. I only know that, if I had been librarian, he should not have had one half the money.

  138. We are as sure to know this also, as soon as he awakes:--and thus far we are relieved from anxiety about the health of the traveller.

  139. Where the surplus have lain, and rotted, I cannot pretend to conjecture: but I know it to be a VERY RARE production!

  140. But I know your love of method, and that you will be angry with me if I do not "begin at the beginning.

  141. You must know we went out, the three of us, on our donkeys, and the fancy seized me to explore some of the dark, narrow streets where the houses all but join overhead.

  142. I have my reasons for desiring to know the very worst.

  143. What do you know of it, or what led me to do it?

  144. It is the most impudent pretence; you know perfectly well he is not here.

  145. I firmly believe that the lady relies upon him greatly, and will in all probability call him to her, or if not that she will wish to let him know how she has got on.

  146. We shall be on French soil directly, and I know something of French law.

  147. I know what you are and what you have been doing, and I prefer to wash my hands of you both.

  148. I know all about it, and I've got you tight, and I'm not going to leave go again.

  149. But what did I know of her real character?

  150. I know I'm right," I urged, a little feebly perhaps, for I was nearly worn out by her prejudice and utterly illogical refusal to see how the land lay.

  151. You'll easily know her, in a long ulster, with her maid and the child.

  152. She had arrived at Marseilles on her return voyage from Tripoli, and was anxious that I should know without delay that we had not shaken off Lord Blackadder.

  153. But the Potatoe had been known in Spain and Portugal at an earlier period, and it is from the latter country that we most directly derive the name by which we know it.

  154. Pigeons also have the wonderful faculty of returning home from almost any distance, appearing to know by instinct the right direction; as, after a turn or two, they take a straight course to their destination.

  155. Only if those fellows are using an airship I'd like to know what kind it is.

  156. This game has so many ends that you don't know where to begin to play it.

  157. Now, don't speak to me, I know all about it.

  158. I don't know whether to start, or to wait.

  159. I saw you in your airship once, and I know you know how to manage such craft.

  160. That's so, and now that we know Andy is rebuilding his old airship, maybe we'd better tell him.

  161. You know Sam said, some time ago, that Andy was to pay him a visit, but Andy didn't come then, for some reason or other.

  162. I was delayed myself, but when I did arrive and found you hadn't been heard from, I didn't know what to think.

  163. Well, I don't know as we have anything to do with it.

  164. I'd like to know what's going on in there.

  165. Andy came back from Shopton yesterday, just before you arrived here, and I can soon let you know whether he was out last night.

  166. If Andy wasn't there to tell me what he wanted done I wouldn't know what to do.

  167. Through the gathering momentum of millions of acts of service and decency and kindness, I know we can overcome evil with greater good.

  168. Americans know economic security can vanish in an instant without health security.

  169. We've come to know truths that we will never question: evil is real, and it must be opposed.

  170. I don't know how I managed to control myself--I had so completely put myself in the place of the husband!

  171. Ah," replied Azora, "didst thou but know in what she was employed when I went to wait upon her!

  172. I certainly should think that I was mad, absolutely mad, if I were not conscious, did not perfectly know my state, if I did fathom it by analyzing it with the most complete lucidity.

  173. I did not know whether she desired to encourage him or menace him, or to tell him that his Blanca could not be an assassin.

  174. I know nothing else about it, your honor!

  175. The couriers who pursued me did not know me.

  176. Do you know what joy there is in heaven over a sinner that repents?

  177. You know better than anyone (and that is your most powerful aid), with what imperious force criminals, especially intellectual ones, feel this temptation.

  178. The next question was: "What is the thing which we receive without thanks, which we enjoy without knowing how, which we give to others when we know not where we are, and which we lose without perceiving it?

  179. What do those who are thinkers in those distant worlds know more than we do?

  180. I saluted it, I hardly know why, except that the sight of the vessel gave me great pleasure.

  181. Nobody wishes to know that the Dragon was Sir Francis Wortley, who was at loggerheads with his neighbours, notably one Lionel Rowlestone, whose advocate was More of More Hall.

  182. We know that at some time or other these animals existed, and, it may be, some few lingered on.

  183. Then, Gesner gives us varieties of Whales, of which we know nothing.

  184. The Leech has, from a very early age, been used as a means of letting blood; but, among the old Romans, it had medicinal uses such as we know not of now.

  185. Now the Shepheards of the Cattel know this well enough: they will play upon their two horned Pipes continually, which sometimes are taken away by Bears, until such time as the Bear is forced by Hunger to go away to get his food.

  186. Whether the following bird is meant for the Hoopoe, or the Lapwing, I know not.

  187. We know that his earliest existence, of which we have any cognisance, must have been at a period when the climate and fauna of the Western continent was totally different to their present state.

  188. If the Sea be boisterous and rise, so doth the Sea Calfe's hair: if the Sea be calm, the hair is smooth; and thus you may know the state of the Sea in a dead Skin.

  189. Speaking of the Province of Chingintalas, he says:--"And you must know that in the same mountain there is a vein of the substance of which Salamander is made.


  190. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "know" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    absorb; appreciate; apprehend; assimilate; associate; catch; comprehend; conceive; conceptualize; deem; dig; digest; discern; distinguish; encounter; endure; experience; fathom; feel; follow; fraternize; get; grasp; have; hear; identify; ken; know; learn; love; master; meet; nail; pay; peg; perceive; place; possess; read; realize; recognize; savor; savvy; see; seize; sense; spend; spot; suffer; sustain; take; taste; tell; twig; undergo; understand; pay; peg; perceive; place; possess; read; realize; recognize; savor; savvy; see; seize; sense; spend; spot; suffer; sustain; take; taste; tell; twig; undergo


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    know also; know enough; know good and evil; know just; know naught; know none; know thee; know things; know this; know what; know what you are talking about; know what you mean; know where; know whether; know who; know whom; know your; knowing good and evil; knowing look; knowing that; knowing the; knowing what; knowledge and; known only; known through; knows what