knot

Example Sentences

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Actually, there wasn’t a kid in the Woodrow Wilson School who didn’t wiggle or twitch or tie knots in his hair or something.

From Literature

Unlike the hotel brand’s other luxury accommodations, this one can travel at 17 knots.

From The Wall Street Journal

And that I’d just compromised her identity this morning at the butcher shop—well, I felt a knot tighten in my stomach.

From Literature

“Around this ‘ticker’ gathered and grouped a knot of eager, nervous, and anxious men,” wrote an astonished observer in 1880.

From Barron's

“Around this ‘ticker’ gathered and grouped a knot of eager, nervous, and anxious men,” wrote an astonished observer in 1880.

From Barron's