KNEE in a Sentence
Learn KNEE 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.
251 example sentences for KNEE, such as:
1. Children, gather round my knee.
2. He danced the child on his knee.
3. He felt a sharp pain in his knee.
4. She patted the old lady on the knee.
5. He cried because he had hurt his knee.
2. He danced the child on his knee.
3. He felt a sharp pain in his knee.
4. She patted the old lady on the knee.
5. He cried because he had hurt his knee.
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Meanings and Examples of KNEE
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knee
n. hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella
n. joint between the femur and tibia in a quadruped; corresponds to the human knee
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 Leaning back in his arm-chair of an evening, he would close his eyes and scrape carelessly at the fiddle which was thrown across his knee.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
2 She laughed, tapping him lightly on the knee.
3 Then up he jerked it again on to his knee.
4 Old Bartholomew tapped his fingers on his knee in time to the tune.
5 She patted the old lady on the knee.
6 Children, gather round my knee.
7 Isa, sweeping her sewing from the table, sank, her knee doubled, into the chair by the window.
8 Even now, he sat with the glass of wine untasted on his knee, and his eyes directed to a corner of the floor.
9 I looked down; my clothes hung formlessly on my shrunken limbs; the hand that lay on my knee was corded and hairy.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context Highlight In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
Context Highlight In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
10 After a time he controlled himself, and, resting with an elbow on one knee, and his head upon that hand, could look towards Rachael.
11 She looked at him, on his knee at her feet, with her shawl still in p.
12 He stood a moment most irresolute; then, stepping forward, took her palfrey by the rein, and bent his knee before her.
13 "Answer for thyself, Friar," said King Richard, something sternly; but immediately stretching out his hand to the Hermit, the latter, somewhat abashed, bent his knee, and saluted it.
14 His heart melted suddenly, like a drop of fire, and he put out his hand and laid his fingers on her knee.
15 He broke the cardboard photograph and mount over his knee, and when it was small enough, put it on the fire.
Example Sentence: (41 in 3 pages)
1 He cried because he had hurt his knee.
2 A sharp tap on the knee usually causes an involuntary movement of the lower leg.
3 It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest , but there is seldom any money in them.
4 Education commences at the mother's knee, andevery word spoken within the hearsay of children tends towards the formation of character.
5 He danced the child on his knee.
6 I hit my knee on the corner of the table.
7 I crashed into a street light and hurt my knee.
8 He will receive physiotherapy on his damaged left knee.
9 She sewed a patch onto the knee of the trousers.
10 He must have a major operation on his knee to mend severed ligaments.
11 She tried to cure the pain in my knee by putting manual pressure on the joint.
12 He felt a sharp pain in his knee.
13 The player has been sidelined by a knee injury.
14 He displaced a bone in his knee in the crash with another player.
15 He will require surgery on his left knee.