knuckle

Example Sentences

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“Those tools are expensive when applied to you even if we don’t win at the end of the day, so knuckle under.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

This kit includes everything you need to make eight luxurious rolls: two pounds of Maine knuckle and claw meat, eight open-top buns, a half-pint of lemony mayo, and the butter to toast the rolls in.

From Salon • Dec. 4, 2025

It scrapes the top of one knuckle, does a bit of a dive to the second knuckle … and then scoots along.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2025

And man, that idea, that image of 22 public integrity lawyers locked in a room like truant children until they knuckle under, and somebody is going to file it.

From Slate • Feb. 14, 2025

Mandrag was clean-shaven and smooth-faced, with hands stained a half hundred different colors and seemed to be made all of knuckle and bone.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss