Example sentences for: knot

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

  • A catshank is a knot similar to a sheepshank but with an extra turn through the loops to prevent their slipping through.

  • Its name, Sa Calobra (“the snake”), gives a hint of the 13 km (8 miles) of hairpin bends that have now become a tourist attraction in themselves; one loop is so exaggerated that the road passes under itself in a knot.

  • He was an older man, this baker, and he wore a curious apron, a heavy thing with loops that went under his arms and around his back and then crossed in front again where they were tied in a very thick knot.

  • The L5 and L6 spinal nerves were tightly ligated by a square knot with 6-0 silk thread.

  • I don't want to provide any more bureaucratic grapeshot (oops!) to restrict our freedom, but we must remain alert when shopping for food: that Danish pastry sitting next to the Battenburg cake could have been baked by a man wearing Argyll socks with a Windsor knot in his tie.


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