Example sentences for: knocking

How can you use “knocking” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • “We are usurping a natural cell system that is there for some other purpose, for knocking out endogenous gene function,” says Rossi.

  • After knocking back a few too many at the train station, he collapsed drunk through the screen door of her parents house.

  • Dr. Richards gives us a mini-treatise on the application of bye-laws in Scotland in the 14th century, which is not particularly useful if you are lost in a fog and, on knocking at the door of an isolated Welsh cottage, you are faced by an aged gentleman who has no English.

  • Among the arguments advanced in support of knocking down the Kingdome was one that especially resonated with any child of Boondogglia: It had to be replaced because its roof was "falling down."

  • For example, ‘knocking out’ an ion channel should increase the variation in the activity of particular neurons among individuals in a population.


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