They stuck to the job and built ten million cubic foot gas-bags--top speed eighty-three knots.
When the correct time had elapsed the engines of the flying-boats were stopped, the destroyers slowed down to three knots, and the boats were slid off the lighters backwards into the water.
Thirteen British vessels thus were converging upon her, twelve of them good for twenty-three knots or more.
Kronprinz Wilhelm, all three good for twenty-three knots in any weather, made a rush for the gap between the Devonport destroyers and the Kincardineshire.
The tide is very irregular in Port Darwin, rising at springs 24 feet, and at neaps sometimes only two; its rate being from one and a half to three knots.
During the winter, after rains, the stream sets down for days together at the rate of from one to three knots.
We could do three knots," said Shard half to himself as he was walking up and down his quarter-deck with very fast short paces.
He anchored at once and sent a hand aloft who sawed it half way through and did the rest with a pistol, and now the Arabs were only three knots astern.
She was designed for speed of twenty-three knots, and to carry ten 14-inch guns.
She was named the Canada, had twenty-three knots of speed, and was designed to carry ten 14-inch guns.
The boat's coming on three knots to our one," he cried out.
Her lofty sails must have caught a light westerly air, which did not reach close down to the water, and had sent her along two or three knots an hour.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "three knots" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
