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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.
Quality of carpets is judged by the number of knots per square inch: 60, 80, or (superlative) 100.
We are making 13 knots on a northeasterly heading; the seawater has become bluer and has risen to 67 degrees.
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.
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.