KNUCKLE in a Sentence

Learn KNUCKLE 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.

37 example sentences for KNUCKLE, such as:

1. Her knuckles whitened as she gripped the gun.
2. He rapped loudly at the door with his knuckles.
3. It is arguable whether the rebels will knuckle under.
4. You'll shoot in a truer straight line if you knuckle down.
5. The strong were made to bully and the weak to knuckle under.

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 Meanings and Examples of KNUCKLE
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knuckle
 n.  a joint of a finger when the fist is closed
 v.  press or rub with the knuckles
Classic Sentence: (29 in 2 pages)
1  The strong were made to bully and the weak to knuckle under.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
2  It reached to the knuckle of her finger and gave her hand the appearance of being weighted down.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
3  She got some satisfaction out of rubbing an itching knuckle.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
4  As he approached us, he began to make uncouth noises, and held up his hands to show us his fingers, which were webbed to the first knuckle, like a duck's foot.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
5  We all looked--the knuckle was black and blue.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
6  'I did that, sir,' said a great lubberly fellow, stepping forward; 'and preciously I cut my knuckle agin' his mouth.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
7  and she seized the countess' hands and kissed a knuckle of the little finger, saying, "June," and continued, kissing, "July, August," on the other hand.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XIII
8  Stumbling against a door on the landing, he rapped at it with his knuckles.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
9  I sat up in bed and rapped my knuckles against the rail to make certain that I was truly awake.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. The Adventure of The Yellow Face
10  He flew at me with his knife, and I had to grasp him twice, and got a cut over the knuckles, before I had the upper hand of him.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty
11  He held out his hand, and I saw in the light of the lamp that two of his knuckles were burst and bleeding.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. The Adventure of The Final Problem
12  They say he could chalk his billiard-cue with his knuckles.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING THREE-QUARTER
13  I remember, too, late that night, beating the bushes with my clenched fist until my knuckles were gashed and bleeding from the broken twigs.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In V
14  Then he turned over the hand holding his pipe, and I saw he was looking at some half-healed scars on his knuckles.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In XII
15  His hands were covered with red mittens through which protruded his chapped raw knuckles.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
Example Sentence:
1  It is arguable whether the rebels will knuckle under.
2  Some of his jokes are a bit too near the knuckle for my taste.
3  The only thing to do was knuckle down and get on with some serious hard work.
4  You'll shoot in a truer straight line if you knuckle down.
5  He rapped the government on the knuckles for wasting the public money.
6  He rapped loudly at the door with his knuckles.
7  He rubbed his hands together, cracking his knuckles as he tried to control his anger.
8  Her knuckles whitened as she gripped the gun.