knock together
Example Sentences
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The ice cubes scrape and knock together.
From Literature
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The virtue of the manhattan is its simplicity; even a distracted bartender can knock together a decent one.
From New York Times
Like mismatched matryoshka dolls, the plays knock together when they ought to nest.
From New York Times
Sure, I can, given a leisurely afternoon, knock together a chocolate babka from the “Jerusalem” cookbook.
From Salon
When bottles knock together in the breeze, they sound like chimes, and that is my favorite thing about this book: the image of those dangling bottles, all those terrible memories that somehow make music when they knock against one another.
From Literature
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