KNOTTY in a Sentence

Learn KNOTTY from example sentences, some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

For KNOTTY, below is one of 9 sentences:
There was a grass-grown track descending the forest aisle between hoar and knotty shafts and under branched arches.

Free Online Vocabulary Test
K12, SAT, GRE, IELTS, TOEFL
 Input your word:
Search Sentence
Want to search a word in classic works?
Search Classic Quotes
 Meanings and Examples of KNOTTY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
knotty
 a.  tied in knots; covered with knots or knobs; difficult to understand or solve
Classic Sentence:
1  But I'm made of knotty Aroostook hemlock; I don't budge.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 126. The Life-Buoy.
2  He must once have been a very strong man, but now his great frame, with big, knotty joints, had a wasted look, and the skin was drawn tight over his high cheekbones.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: V
3  There was a grass-grown track descending the forest aisle between hoar and knotty shafts and under branched arches.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
4  You'll find him a knotty problem, though.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES
5  Struggling and kicking under the cuts of the cane and the blows of the knotty stump Stephen was borne back against a barbed wire fence.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
6  The slab has here been replaced by a cross-beam, against which lean five or six shapeless fragments of knotty and petrified wood which resemble huge bones.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT
7  He ended; the other, putting out all his strength, hurls his rough spear, knotty and unpeeled.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK NINTH
Example Sentence:
1  They flew over the lawn where an array of mighty old thorn trees, strong, knotty, and broad as oaks.
2  What to Watson had been a knotty problem, to Sherlock Holmes was simplicity itself.