11 example sentences using knock.
Knock used in a sentence
Knock in a sentence as a noun
"So, if your friends are giving you a hard time, tell 'em to knock it the **** off.
We should applaud and celebrate this, not knock down how he's not a senior developer yet.
They're something you learn how to create in one semester in college and you can knock out a simple one in a few weeks.
At any point, a no-knock warrant could be incorrectly issued for my house and I could have paramilitary troops attack.
As I enjoy the afterlife there, knocking back flagons of mead and knocking up wenches, while trading tall tales of valor with the other chosen, there comes a knock at the door.
They are almost uniquely a product of the drug war. One can imagine very few situations outside of ***** were evidence could be so easily destroyed as to justify a no-knock warrant.
Knock in a sentence as a verb
I always like stuff like this because you see that these people who knock it out of the park apparently effortlessly actually struggle like all the rest of us normal humans behind the scenes.
Create strains of "knock-out" rodents, where you block the production of certain chemicals or proteins you think ketamine might affect by altering their genetic composition.
An Eliot-Spitzer-Client-9 level scandal uncovered in this fashion would absolutely knock her out of the ring, though it wouldn't be as satisfying as seeing her forced to step down for pursuing this case.
I can still knock together a shell script, tail -f a logfile and pipe it through grep, get some vague clue about why something crashed by casting my eye over a Java exception error, and make a lazy developer deeply uncomfortable when he realises that - would you believe it!
Now, if youre not from the USA, I can already hear you objecting that its impractical to drive a small fleet of ocean-going vessels on suburban streets, or that its wasteful to retain a staff of thousands just to make the daily commute, or that its not all that great, environment-wise, to knock over city blocks every time I make a Starbucks run.
Knock definitions
the sound of knocking (as on a door or in an engine or bearing); "the knocking grew louder"
See also: knocking
negative criticism
See also: roast
a vigorous blow; "the sudden knock floored him"; "he took a bash right in his face"; "he got a bang on the head"
a bad experience; "the school of hard knocks"
deliver a sharp blow or push :"He knocked the glass clear across the room"
rap with the knuckles; "knock on the door"
knock against with force or violence; "My car bumped into the tree"
See also: bump
make light, repeated taps on a surface; "he was tapping his fingers on the table impatiently"
See also: pink
sound like a car engine that is firing too early; "the car pinged when I put in low-octane gasoline"; "The car pinked when the ignition was too far retarded"