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Example sentences for "knuckled"

Lexicographically close words:
knowyn; knowyng; knowynge; knowyth; knuckle; knuckles; knuckling; knuckly; knurled; knycht
  1. The boy stopped in his rapid blinking, knuckled his forehead again, glanced at Sissy, turned about, and retreated.

  2. Mr. Harthouse inclined his head in assent, and Bitzer knuckled his forehead.

  3. Bitzer knuckled his forehead again, in a sneaking manner, and seemed at once particularly impressed and depressed by the instance last given of Mr. Bounderby's moral abstinence.

  4. Mrs. Marshall put out a large, strong hand and took his slack, big-knuckled fingers into a tight clasp.

  5. When he saw her eyes on him he waved his hand, a largely knuckled hand, and grinned.

  6. Mr Carnaby knuckled Dale's head as he asked him if he called that a switch.

  7. And through the rest of the morning, as he sat and gazed into the fire, she observed that he several times chuckled gently and rubbed his delicate, chill, swollen knuckled hands together.

  8. Reminding himself, however, that a servant was the difficulty least likely to be encountered in that tenement, he knuckled up his hand and knocked.

  9. An advisory discussion outside, too low-voiced for intelligibility, ended in a fourth demand for admittance, knuckled to carry to the rear of the house and waken any sleeper within.

  10. Abraham knuckled his forehead, pausing to say to me in a hoarse whisper, which must have been perfectly audible to the Captain.

  11. Then you'll be knuckled;" and knuckled they were, according to ancient experience.

  12. Then he halted before the dumb Beetle and softly knuckled his bead, Beetle bowing to the strokes.

  13. He slipped his coat back on, smoothed down his thin mane of reddish gray hair with his hands, stepped out into the hall and rapped delicately with a knuckled finger upon the door of the next room.

  14. A hand which was big-knuckled and thin held a small, moist wad of handkerchief.

  15. And his shaking, big-knuckled finger tapped the editorial on "Socialism Unveiled.

  16. His big-knuckled finger, shaken in denunciation, was raised almost in her face.

  17. It was a bony, big-knuckled hand not at all like 'Poleon Doret's.

  18. She looked like the American-born daughter of Swedish or Norwegian emigrants and her large-knuckled hands, too, bespoke the peasant strain.

  19. Mr. Cruncher knuckled his forehead, as Sydney Carton and the spy returned from the dark room.

  20. Jerry had just enough forehead to knuckle, and he knuckled it in acknowledgment of this communication and a shilling.

  21. Nothing but the straining, white-knuckled grip of his other hand modified the absolute, wilful insolence of his pose.

  22. If I could draw," he persisted, "I'd make a picture that would hit the world like a knuckled fist straight between its selfish old eyes.

  23. I--He got away on me," knuckled down McFluke.

  24. But his habits rode him to a frazzle final and he knuckled under to tooberclosis, and they only saved his life by fetchin' him West.

  25. Mr. Carnaby knuckled Dale's head as he asked him if he called that a switch.

  26. I never knuckled to her, either," protested Esther.

  27. I'm sure I never knuckled to her, though she is my great-aunt.

  28. I sailed with your grandfather when he was a bucko of the old school, and though we didn’t usually agree and once I nearly shot him, I never knuckled under.

  29. This knuckled rod had on its upper end the display tablet, or indicator G.

  30. If the same operation were performed on another key, the knuckle on its vertical rod, going up, would again push the supporting bar back, which would release the first knuckled rod, and leave the last one in its place.

  31. He knuckled the door loudly--one double knock followed by another.

  32. Of northern Sonora they made a source of supply for their horses and drove whole herds out of Mexico, using the surplus animals for food, keeping the rest for mounts until these knuckled under from hard treatment.


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "knuckled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.