Example sentences for: knowingly

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

  • Alawyer may not knowingly lie, but he or she is under no obligation to know the truth or to draw logical inferences from what he or she does know.

  • Officially, the American Bar Association's model code of professional responsibility forbids a lawyer to "knowingly make a false statement of law or fact."

  • President Clinton proposed new federal gun control legislation . It would raise the legal age for handgun possession to 21, prohibit juvenile possession of semiautomatic weapons, require trigger locks, make parents criminally liable for "knowingly or recklessly" giving their kids access to guns used to kill or injure, and extend background checks to gun show patrons and people who try to buy explosives.

  • The suit charges that stores in Chicago's suburbs knowingly overstocked guns, confident that they would be distributed to illegal outlets, and that the gun industry constitutes a "public nuisance"--that is, by enabling illegal gun sales, it increased the burden on Chicago's civic services.

  • Of all the people involved, she is the one who apparently never lied or knowingly broke a confidence.


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