KNITTING in a Sentence

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For KNITTING, below is one of 120 sentences:
And Levin saw with astonishment that she had taken up the knitting she had brought in in the night and begun working at it again.

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 Meanings and Examples of KNITTING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
knitting
 n.  creating knitted wear
 n.  needlework created by interlacing yarn in a series of connected loops using straight eyeless needles or by machine
Classic Sentence: (114 in 8 pages)
1  Estella was knitting, and Miss Havisham was looking on.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLIV
2  The action of her fingers was like the action of knitting.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLVIII
3  Mrs. Peggotty with the white apron, was knitting on the opposite side of the fire.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. I HAVE A CHANGE
4  Accordingly, when Mr. Peggotty came home about nine o'clock, this unfortunate Mrs. Gummidge was knitting in her corner, in a very wretched and miserable condition.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. I HAVE A CHANGE
5  We all said something, or looked something, to welcome him, except Mrs. Gummidge, who only shook her head over her knitting.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. I HAVE A CHANGE
6  Mrs. Heep, with a prodigious sniff, resumed her knitting.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 39. WICKFIELD AND HEEP
7  In the drawing-room, there was the mother knitting and watching again.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 39. WICKFIELD AND HEEP
8  Next day the knitting and watching began again, and lasted all day.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 39. WICKFIELD AND HEEP
9  Somebody broke down in a piece of knitting, and no one but Sophy was able to put the defaulter in the right direction.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 59. RETURN
10  "As you see," responded Vronsky, knitting his brows, wiping his mouth, and not looking at the officer.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 19
11  She was sitting up in bed, holding some knitting, which she had been busy upon during the last few days.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 13
12  And Levin saw with astonishment that she had taken up the knitting she had brought in in the night and begun working at it again.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 13
13  Kitty was walking about knitting rapidly and giving directions.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 13
14  The ladies were making uniforms, knitting socks and rolling bandages, and the men were drilling and shooting.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
15  Only the older men, the cripples and the women were left, and they spent their time knitting and sewing, growing more cotton and corn, raising more hogs and sheep and cows for the army.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
Example Sentence:
1  The summer air, the restful quiet, and the drowsing murmur of the bees had had their effect, and she was nodding over her knitting -- for she had no company but the cat, and it was asleep in her lap.
2  Weaving and knitting are traditional cottage industries.
3  She knitted a pair of mittens for me with her nimble fingers.
4  She could knit up a baby's coat in an afternoon.
5  In a good report, individual sentences knit together in a clear way that readers can follow.
6  When he broke his leg, he sat around the house all day waiting for the bones to knit.