One Sunday afternoon, with a strong breeze on the quarter, the brig was reeling it off at the rate of eight or nine knots, and a rough and turbulent sea was helping her along.
Invincible, going at the rate of nine knots an hour, struck violently upon a sand-bank, and before the sails could be furled, she was fast aground in little more than three fathoms water.
At eight o'clock of the evening of the 20th, the first watch had been stationed, and the officer on duty had reported the ship's progress atnine knots an hour.
The Grasshopper was at this time going at the rate of nine knots an hour; four of the convoy had been kept in view up to this period, but were soon lost sight of in the heavy squall of snow and sleet.
In the night there are two leading lights which show you the direct way in, the only danger being at spring tides, when the tide sometimes runs eight or nine knots an hour.
This was again a work of great difficulty, for the tide ran eight or nine knots an hour, and a stiff gale was blowing against us.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nine knots" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
