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Example sentences for: knots

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(By the way, the Post is wrong to say the plane was going "100 knots per hour" too fast--a "knot" is a (nautical) mile per hour.)
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.
Tail kinks ranged from single, acute bends to multiple angulations resembling knots (Fig.
Line drawings illustrate the single turle, grinner, blood, needle , and nail —all knots used in tying flies.
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.