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Example sentences for: knots

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Twenty years ago, possibly even 15 years ago, when I came out of the building there would be knots of tourists, often Japanese, standing around, looking to take pictures of the building where it happened.
Not any tighter than the knots left by the accounts of Serb atrocities against Albanian Kosovars, just different.
Then there's Woodward's way--a sort of postmodernist literary technique in which time and space loop around and tie each other in knots.
Dreams that, decades later, back at my hotel in Fez,A bucket of cold water was suddenly poured on.I'd gone to the hammam, stripped, and lay on a patternOf sopping tiles that might have spelled God's will.Steam shrouded the attendant methodically soapingThe knots of disappointment he'd knuckled in my back.He paused.
At 45 to 50 knots, the wind shrieked throughout the ship and was actually tearing off the tops of the 25-to-30-foot seas.