Using the word knew in a sentence

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He had been lovers with that ghost in Tdsehi almost as long as he had with been with Tdeshi, before Jorma knew what she was of course


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There were only fifty million males in the whole urban universe of the Yakahn, and practically all of them that he had ever met, knew Venna intimately


3.
Moses walked with God and knew Him in Exodus


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Those who walked with God in Leviticus knew


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Those who walked with God in Numbers knew


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knew Him as the Rock and the One Who Gives


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Joshua walked with God and knew Him as the


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Judges walked with God and they knew Him as


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Ruth walked with God and knew Him as the Lord


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Ezra walked with God and knew Him as the

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Esther walked with God and knew Him as the


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David walked with God and knew Him as the


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knew God as the Rewarder of Faith, Burden bearer,


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» Jorma knew that Herndon was pretty excited about his boat because he popped back out the hatch and lifted one of the seat cushions to show him


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Before he knew


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I knew it was empty when I got here, so to speak


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» He knew that wasn’t getting across what he wanted to say, she’d already said it, ‘Frankensteined back to life’ after Tdeshi’s death


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” I have a feeling I’ll be saying this a lot, but it’s good to know that there are still people around who knew him and remember him


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understanding of what you now have? If they knew how time management


20.
By now the whole population of North Island knew that she was gone

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They knew because he had been over to Raltain’s at least once in each of those weeks since Venna disappeared and told many who asked for her


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Luke: 7:37: And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the


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«I never met Ava but I knew Tdeshi


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«Oh she let me know she was worth aluminum, I knew she could put up that camp with her left hand, she talked about putting up a whole plank villa


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Here we see a woman who is a sinner and she knew she


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He knew what Cynd was and knew it had thousands of asteroids orbiting it


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As soon as he moved, the candle went out and he knew someone was here


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She knew she was unworthy, so she


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He was almost too hung over to stand and knew it would be senseless to chase


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He knew she would never be back to explain, he was just one of those people in the way

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When he thought about how different Ava was from Tdeshi, he knew he was much happier with Ava


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It was moving too slowly to be a meteor, but he knew it looked like that only because of its tremendous size


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Both Odin and Jesus Christ knew of their fates, and yet they approached them unflinchingly


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Even though he knew that I did what I had to, he said he couldn’t forgive me either


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brethren, nor knew his own children: for they have


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The ‘magic wand’ principal was all I knew about starship engines before I met you


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I never knew such a perfect housemate could ever exist


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She knew that sooner or later she was going to be found out and get cornered by reporters


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«I probably still do,» Ava said, «Last I knew it was still in the back of some lab at the Kassikan


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Before Bob knew what was going on, he had lost two of his accomplices

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There was one of them she knew very well, Herndon Luicius Carlos da Silva, the one she shared a bed with for twenty Earth years, three decades by the local calendar


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All Hermann knew is that Grandma breathed really loud and it scared him at night


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Everyone she ever knew growing up was probably waiting there


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“I knew this kid that threw a cat at a ceiling once,” Becca shrugged, placing a piece of ginger delicately on top of her salmon roll


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Besides that, she never knew more than a few words of Portuguese


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Athnu excused himself, but Ava knew Kulai would know every detail of their embrace and who it was that initiated what


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She barely even knew me, she said


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He didn’t have it yet, but sitting in the office waiting to speak to the principal, he knew he was going to get it


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Sniders had already given it to him, but he knew that students could get these things overturned if they said the right things to the principal


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“What does it do?” she asked him point blank, the look on her face clearly suggesting that she didn’t believe he knew

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She said nothing, he knew he had to go on, she wasn’t going to beg


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She knew as he said it that he could not have said that to a native, they couldn’t comprehend it, it was like saying Fort Knox had disappeared to a 20th century American or Wall Street was missing to a 21st century American


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Clunker,” Nancy said, putting the emphasis on his last name, which she knew he hated


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Still, from Johnny’s experience he knew that nothing usually went that smoothly


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She knew them all, knew the Colonel was the firebrand who had the hardest time adapting to the ways of this world


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The next thing Nancy knew she was in a super sonic elevator traveling at high speeds


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«You knew that?» she asked, needing a moment to think about the larger question


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«Maybe if he knew about it,» she said


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She alone knew why James had to die


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She knew how well that was going, there were few in their third generation, though they were pure bred, that could speak enough Portuguese to get by

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She knew Herndon wanted to accuse Venna of stealing aluminum from his home


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She knew the Mongols had taken over most of China because they had ponies


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And she knew that only rich people had ponies


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After a year in this house she knew where the shadows were when Noonsleep was over in the fall


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«I’ll admit, I would have been tempted to take an expedition out there if I knew there was four tons of aluminum to be found


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‘She knew nothing about these classes of yours … what do you say to that?’


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She knew it was a street diagram but it was written in Portuguese with no city identification, it had meant little to her at the time


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At least none that Evan knew of


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‘You knew Mrs Sadler, Mrs Wynell


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If they knew about his existence, it would ruin the purity of their dance

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She knew, better than any native, what that would mean here


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“I never knew my parents because they both passed away when I was young,” Nancy said in a quiet voice


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She knew all that from pictures


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He knew that Ackers never left the base, and the chances of him actually coming to Johnny’s house were the same as the chances of the United Order knowing that Johnny Clunker was Johnny B


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She knew it said, ‘Let all who’s way is eased give thanks to those who’s centuries of toil have joined our basins in peace and brotherhood


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«You knew about this


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He knew better than to pursue that with her


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Upon seeing Fox and the bugs, the people knew that Haques had been cursed


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The only thing Scar felt he knew for sure was that if he attacked her and failed, it would be the end of him


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Although Serpent loved God most of all, he knew that his mate was of God

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He knew he had only been working with her a short time, but he trusted her enough to believe she would never try anything like that


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Some things had to be investigated instead of assumed, and now that he knew for sure the door was locked, he knew exactly how to proceed


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Yet again, I am left with the definite feeling that Liz is popular … I wish I knew her properly … Stephen seems to like her and he is pretty picky when it comes to people generally, and especially women


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It was such a small and harmless looking thing, yet Ackers knew that whoever held that Chip had the power to circumvent the world’s technological safeguards


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For example, if the testator never knew English but has the will drafted in that language, then it can be contested on the basis that the testator had no idea what he/she was signing


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He knew instantly that it was the Super Chip; there was no hiding the amount of connections and registers the Chip held from Ackers’ x-ray glasses


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He couldn’t see who had snuck in through the window, but he knew a technological radar when he heard one


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No one ever knew what had come from the moon base Talstan had taken over from China


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He would have to defend it, he knew that


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But then the shift bell rang and Frank knew it was time to clock out

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His time had run out, Ackers knew that


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«Only the same ones we knew by helmet and the ones you swoon over


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He turned his back toward her after his eyes told her he knew she knew that she already knew


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» She knew her sister was deeply involved with the Heavenly Mother, she wondered if it was politically possible to have a conversation with her about any hostile intentions on their part


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» She clearly knew what Herndon’s plan was, she was clearly telling Ava that she knew it and clearly telling Herndon that she was not divulging what it was


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He’d always wanted to be a monster since he was little, but Peter had gotten his head beat with the reality stick one too many times (that’s what Ma called her favorite cane) and he knew a panhandler was all he’d ever grow up to be


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Even if I knew the answer to that


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doostEr knew of the immigrants from a far-away star, had even met and done business with a couple of them


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All the countries of this area knew the ocean- India, Japan; all have learned to rely on the ocean and her bounty


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also wept because he knew that there was no such thing as a fairy god mother, no

Sentences using the word knew. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use knew in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for knew.

  • I knew I was! (9)
  • And she knew it. (8)
  • But I knew better. (10)
  • He knew better now. (22)
  • I never knew such air. (9)
  • He knew Lord Fleetwood. (10)
  • She knew that expression. (8)
  • She knew nearly for certain! (8)
  • He knew that it was very dry. (13)
  • You knew you could do the rest. (9)
  • I knew nothing about her before. (14)
  • Be sure that she knew who he was. (10)
  • We knew again what was the matter. (16)
  • She did no harm there, he knew well. (10)
  • She knew it as well as Nevil Beauchamp. (10)
  • She hardly knew whether to be glad or sorry. (8)
  • I knew how it would be when we gave you the vote. (8)
  • So he drove to the pawnbroker; one whom he knew. (10)
  • They seemed to her somewhat like everybody she knew. (8)
  • She knew not what to think, or how to account for it. (4)
  • The widow knew what it was to have a bad conscience. (12)
  • Then I must be wicked, whether I knew I was doing it or not. (9)
  • He knew the way to get into company without false pretences. (10)
  • He was startled by the fierce tone of a voice he hardly knew. (8)
  • In those days he seemed much changed to such as knew him well. (8)
  • But he knew she had come to say something which she had not said. (8)
  • They knew, however, that Major Nagen continued in the mountains. (10)
  • Anthony knew that he wanted no wine, whatever his needs might be. (10)
  • He knew how to take care of himself; he could get around anybody. (12)
  • She knew instinctively that, facing the eyes, it would not look well. (10)
  • And since no one knew her inward feelings, all were puzzled except Winton. (8)
  • He felt anger against her, against every one he knew, against life itself. (8)
  • Very few knew his name then, but he, too, was destined to be world-famous. (19)
  • I knew that in his heart he thought me justly punished, though he loved me. (10)
  • Little as she knew, she was alive to the worst interpretation of appearances. (10)
  • As to his character, I can truly say that he is one of the best men I ever knew. (9)
  • From the first Kuni had believed that she knew who was being borne to the grave. (5)
  • Wilfrid, he knew not why, had got a sudden hunger for all the days of her life. (10)
  • I heard it, and knew when I let my heart warm to you that I could never marry you. (10)
  • He knew his trade, and accomplished in one day more than other workmen did in three. (12)
  • She knew when her spell was weakening, when the current wanted, as it were, renewing. (8)
  • I do assure you, Sir Purcy, I feel it, and never knew a right-minded woman that did not. (10)
  • It was less troubled than when he had bent over her before, as though in her sleep she knew. (8)
  • She knew, too, that it was no ordinary indisposition from which one recovers within a few days. (12)
  • The few words he uttered of Italy had a golden ring in them; Vittoria knew not why they had it. (10)
  • She knew not how to support herself, and from actual weakness sat down and cried for half-an-hour. (4)
  • Whether the Baronet knew what he was saying is one matter: he knew what he meant. (10)
  • He was not a man who allowed his taste to be warped when he knew for solid reasons that it was sound. (8)
  • When I first knew him out in Indianapolis he was starving along with a sick wife and a sick newspaper. (9)
  • At least, he knew she would despise him if he avoided the brutal challenge without some show of dignity. (22)
  • Sometimes Miss Andrews apparently knew that he was playing with her innocence, and sometimes she did not. (9)
  • I knew that her rich, tender voice was doing its work, too, through the commonplaces she vouchsafed to me. (9)
  • There, literally, he lived during the six or seven years in which I knew him after my coming to Cambridge. (9)
  • He knew that nine people out of ten looked on him as something of a parasite, with no real work in the world. (8)
  • I wonder whether my friends imagine me to be the same man whom they knew as Gilbert Pollingray a month back? (10)
  • Prince bowed and left the King, for he knew his character so well that there was nothing more for him to do. (18)
  • Whereupon Robert took his arm, and holding the scraggy wretch forward, commanded him to out with what he knew. (10)
  • She knew at once it was the one who was going to bite; the voice was proper for him, having a nice, smothery sound. (8)
  • Beaton knew she wanted to talk with him about something else; but he waited patiently to let her play her comedy out. (9)
  • He knew that he was to have a night attack from more men than before, and he had lost six men in the fight that day. (18)
  • Lady Dunstane was quick-witted and had a talkative husband; she knew a little of the upper social world of her time. (10)
  • However animated the company, this would happen from time to time; every one knew it, and had become accustomed to it. (12)
  • He confessed to himself, that latterly he had, he knew not why, been impatient with her, rancorous in thought, as never before. (10)
  • Drummond and Lady Jocelyn began talking of old Tom Cogglesby, whom, it appeared, the former knew intimately, and the latter had known. (10)
  • She knew that he would tell her if ever things went wrong, and he knew that she would ask him whenever she was anxious. (9)
  • They still knew that the interest they took in their business was a trifling affair compared to their spontaneous, long-suffering affection for nautical sports. (2)

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Definition of knew:

  • knew, n, pa.t. of know.(0)

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I oughtn’t to, I know because if papa ever found out you knew about it he’d spend half his anger on you for not warning him.

I didn’t want them to start getting rough… so I said to them pacifically: «Dear, sweet clodhoppers… if you knew anything of sexual psychology… you would know hat nothing could give me keener pleasure… than to be manhandled by you meaty boys… ecstasy of the naughtiest kind.

he had learned to trust in men he knew and to give them credit for a wisdom that outreached his own.

The pre-Hellenic Minoans knew it for God sakes.

He had thrombophlebitis. He took an injection every day, but no one knew that.

[Laughing giddily] I mean, I knew you guys were hiding something, right?

I knew since a long time ago.

I’m reminded of things I didn’t even know I knew, for instance, because some…

He liked to make pictures which he knew would make both the most liberal and educated and the most politically conservative people, make them both kind of upset.

How is it that we knew he’d do something like that?

She knew who’s phone number it was.

I don’t think he knew anything.

He knew Snorri and Veigar were losing the contract.

He never knew how he got there.

We are looking for someone who knew about the explosives.

If I knew then it wouldn’t maybe be lost.

You knew he would tell us when he woke up so you wanted to stop that from happening.

Adam: Jeff — — I picked and immediately knew he was amazing.

Not even my best friend knew that I liked to sing. Daly: … And earthy singer sara oromchi sang «imagine.»

I knew we’d get paired together!

Joseph was shot by an angry mob And knew he’d soon be dead

When faced with his own death, Jesus knew that he had to…

I knew you’d be a cock crunching shrew about this.

But I couldn’t give up on him. I knew I had to help him find what was at the heart— Of his darkness.

I wanted to make sure you knew before someone broke in.

But a technician hid the 45 in the one place he knew Frank would never look.

They knew we had that money.

Nobody even knew who was in there.

I knew it could not be true

I wanted to go check on her to see how she was doing ’cause I knew she had scratches and stuff on her, and she was sure freaked out like I was.

If he knew, I doubt he’d suggest going home together after work.

I knew I had to see him again, so I went to find him.

I knew that I had to grab onto him.

The only reason why I was able to… tell you to get lost all this time without any fear… was because I knew… without a doubt in my mind… that you’d rise again by my side.

I never knew that a day would come when I’d be impressed by Tae Yi Ryung’s acting.

I was trying to leave for your own sake because I knew I wasn’t good enough for you.

When I told her that I knew, she took a blood sample from the patient without consent.

Your dad knew about me, Sandy, the whole thing.

I knew it would be hard to raise a kid on my own.

I was just saying to the inspector here we knew him as a young boy, remember?

But you knew that already, didn’t you, Commissioner?

Yes. We knew all along, sadly.

Sentences starting with knew

  • Knew no reason why he could not be an impartial juror. [5]
  • Knew old man Gibbs well’s I do you. [9]
  • Knew ye that? [5]
  • Knew Col. Selby. [5]

Sentences ending with knew

  • He married a young lady whom I knew. [5]
  • Yet all Egypt would rise up from the mud-floor, the dourha-field and the mud-hut, and would come out to die for Mahomet and Allah—ay, as Harrik knew, as Harrik knew! [11]
  • How all Washington would gather up its virtuous skirts and avoid me, if it knew. [5]
  • What their fate would be no man knew. [9]
  • That was the worst day the college ever knew. [11]
  • While he was with her she made him forget that the Hawkins’ house was nothing but a wooden tenement, with four small square rooms on the ground floor and a half story; it might have been a palace for aught he knew. [5]
  • This power, combined with a fine intellectual and indomitable energy, and a taste altogether military, constituted in him, as seemed to me, the best natural talent in that department I ever knew. [7]
  • But I do wish I knew. [5]
  • About a man, who wanted treasures, and before whom mountains opened at a word he knew. [10]
  • In the end, when her awakening came, she learned that she had builded better than she knew. [13]

Short sentences using knew

  • Oh, I knew you would! [11]
  • I knew you years ago. [11]
  • I knew you would. [5]
  • I knew you would! [10]
  • I knew he would come! [10]
  • She knew not why. [12]
  • And he knew why. [10]
  • She knew not what action. [9]
  • I knew you were somebody. [9]
  • I knew him well. [5]

Sentences containing knew two or more times

  • I knew that you were not mixed up in politics, but I also knew that you were an intimate friend of Jethro’s, and I thought that you had been let into the secret of the woodchuck session. [9]
  • If he knew you as I knew you, he would look at the matter in a different light. [9]
  • I knew he would; I knew it mighty well. [5]
  • I knew you would sympathize—I knew you would feel as I do. [8]
  • He knew now why he had come to town; he also knew why he must not stay, or, if staying, what must be his course. [11]
  • Here were people who knew the truth about him, knew the sort of man he really was. [11]
  • No one knew what to do, for no one knew well the state of Henderson’s affairs. [4]
  • He knew men well, and he knew that youths of various birth take a blow in the face in various ways; now, the Emir’s son had demeaned him as one of his rank, and had stood the ordeal! [10]
  • I knew very well the strength of my position; I knew that I was the only spotlessly pure and innocent person in that whole town, and I came out and said so: And they could not say a word. [5]
  • Perrot knew the way, I did not; Perrot also knew the Indians. [11]

More example sentences with the word knew in them

  • I knew two youths who tried to «kill their men» for no other reason—and got killed themselves for their pains. [5]
  • Trying to play yourself for a stranger and an innocent!—why, I knew you before you had spoken seven words; and I made up my mind to find out what was your little game. [5]
  • They are aware, your honour, that he and you knew each other in Ireland, and they think you are hard on him. [11]
  • Men would call your acts treacherous if they knew what you had done; and so indeed they were; but yet I have seen you do things to others—not to me—which could rise only from the fountain of pure waters. [11]
  • They were not youngsters, either of them; but they had the spring of youth in them, and a deep basis of strength and force; and they knew the veld and the veld people. [11]
  • In 1870 a young stranger arrived in Sydney, and set about finding something to do; but he knew no one, and brought no recommendations, and the result was that he got no employment. [5]
  • Of all the young men she knew, not one had ever ventured into anything of the sort. [9]
  • Most of the young men knew a portion of it, and it was not customary to venture much beyond this known portion. [5]
  • While still a young man, he had a manner of folding his hands and smiling which is peculiar to capitalists, and he knew the laws concerning mortgages in several different states. [9]
  • There were five young gentlemen playing a game I knew not, with intervals of intense silence, and boisterous laughter and execrations while the cards were being shuffled and the money rang on the board and glasses were being filled from a stand at one side. [9]
  • But the sturdy young fellow knew how to defend his liberty, and had already released himself from his assailant when other servants grasped him. [10]
  • He knew that young and old wolves were there, that the hounds had separated into two packs, that somewhere a wolf was being chased, and that something had gone wrong. [2]
  • I didn’t tell you, because I knew you were afraid to be left alone. [13]
  • I acknowledged to you yesterday what you already knew without words. [10]
  • He knew that you would obey his orders, I suppose. [9]
  • I knew that you would not refuse me in spite of the fact that the world may misunderstand, may sneer at your taking me. [9]
  • I am sure you would not be so cruel if you knew that I was aching to see you. [9]
  • You are—I knew you would help me. [10]
  • We knew that you were rich. [10]
  • If I knew you were not, I should not have troubled you with this letter. [7]
  • So you knew you were guilty of sin in going without their leave! [5]
  • He knew that you were engaged to me. [9]
  • Last I knew, you were deep in the Mind Cure. [4]
  • I knew that you were big enough even for that, when you understood it, coming from me. [9]
  • H. What makes you think you thought you knew him? [5]
  • But I’ve known you since you were so high, and I knew your father; he used to stay weeks on my plantation when we were both younger. [4]
  • We knew him, you see, for a trusty man. [5]
  • But how knew you our baker was English?—which he is, a prisoner like yourself. [11]
  • I knew that you meant all you urged upon me; that you liked me. [11]
  • I would let you know now, if I knew myself. [5]
  • I don’t think you knew it, but his first wife was one of your acquaintances— Mrs. Llyn, whose daughter you saw just before we left Playmore. [11]
  • Ah, what ambition you had when I first knew you on the Zambesi, when the old red umbrella, but for you, would have carried me over into the mist and the thunder! [11]
  • I knew that you had advertised a trip to Europe (why, the Lord only knows), so I went East and sailed for England on the Canadian Line. [9]
  • Why, I knew you for a born son of luck the minute I saw you. [5]
  • I knew that you did not want me. [9]
  • You knew him, you can understand what I mean. [10]
  • She shrank, and yet again she said that she would rather have his cruelty than another man’s tenderness, so long as she knew that she had his— She paused, and did not say the word. [11]
  • I heard that yesterday morning, and thought that the golden blessing which preceded it would last the dear saints only knew how long. [10]
  • When they reached Yaroslavl the wound had begun to fester (Natasha knew all about such things as festering) and the doctor had said that the festering might take a normal course. [2]
  • So it is written; and you could actually declare before the judges a thing that was false, and that you knew would bring others to ruin? [10]
  • He knew the writing very well—Jock Lawson’s. [11]
  • Even if he wounded Racine only, what a wretched story to go abroad: that he had fought with a hunchback—a hunchback who knew the use of the sword, which he did not, but still a hunchback! [11]
  • I knew you wouldn’t mind, but you mustn’t leave your—affairs,—not for an instant. [9]
  • I knew you wouldn’t like it. [4]
  • Sonya said you wouldn’t go, but I knew that today is the sort of day when you couldn’t help going. [2]
  • Even then I wouldn’t believe it of him, that he’d take poor people’s money that way when he had more than he knew what to do with. [9]
  • I know you wouldn’t be seen with him if you knew his reputation. [5]
  • I knew they would, of course. [9]
  • He knew she would stand by him whatever happened. [4]
  • For instance, she would stamp four copies of each letter out of sweet honey-cakes, and when I knew them well she gave me these tiny little A. [10]
  • Thither, quoth she, would she send Herdegen on his coming; for she knew full well that the tidings brought by Akusch could not remain hid. [10]
  • I knew it would sadden you and unfit you for work. [5]
  • He knew Sonya would pass that way. [2]
  • I knew you would only have to show him that it was just and pure, in order to secure his cordial support. [5]
  • I knew Blucher would not lose an opportunity like this. [5]
  • She knew he would never pull himself together now. [11]
  • I knew he would never consent to spend the season at the Star and Garter at my expense. [9]
  • He, Berthold Vorchtel, would make no complaint against him, for he knew that Wolff had been forced to cross swords with his Ulrich. [10]
  • That, he knew, would make Edith happy, and to make her happy seemed now very much like a worthy object in life. [4]
  • Finally, if I would lend him $500 a year for two years, (this was 4 or 5 years ago,) he knew he could make a success as a lawyer, and would prove it. [5]
  • He must, he would forget—and he knew, that he could only succeed if he found a task which might promise to give some new occupation to his bereaved soul. [10]
  • I knew he would forget it in an hour, and maybe be sorry for it, too; but it angered me a little, at the moment. [5]
  • No doubt he would deny it now, for he knew how she loathed him. [11]
  • I knew it would be, but I couldn’t bear to shorten my visit in Brandon. [4]
  • Ditmar, she knew, would be waiting for her, he counted on her, and she could not bear to disappoint him, to disappoint herself. [9]
  • I knew she would be uneasy about him. [5]
  • I knew there would be trouble. [5]
  • I knew there would be trouble. [11]
  • I knew someone would be there—it is nearer the world. [11]
  • He knew what would be the unanimous opinion of society about it. [4]
  • I knew she would be solicitous about what he might do down here, so I did it to quiet her and to comfort her. [5]
  • Then he, Argutis, would be house steward, and show that he knew other things besides keeping the workroom and garden in order, splitting wood, and buying cheaply at market. [10]
  • We feared you would be anxious unless you knew from ourselves what steps we intended to take, and therefore came to you before we stirred in the matter. [12]
  • I knew her worth when first she came to London, as arrant a baggage as ever led man a dance. [9]
  • He knew the world tolerably well. [11]
  • Yes, all the world knew it was going to be in reality a duel between Merlin and me, a measuring of his magic powers against mine. [5]
  • She saw me working; she knew the life I had to live; she was lifted up with me. [11]
  • He blindly felt working in the man before him a powerful mind, more powerful because it faced the truth unflinchingly; but he knew that this did not mean calm acceptance of the consequences. [11]
  • Not that my work was poor, but I knew that it might have been better. [9]
  • I had hard work to keep my temper, but I knew that I must not lose it. [9]
  • The tyrant who wore this gaudy cloak was, no doubt, devoid alike of truth and conscience; but, as to his being a philosopher, who knew the worthlessness of earthly things and turned his back upon the world, those who could might believe it! [10]
  • She knew the words, too; and even before she could hear them, they were fitting into the air: «Qui va la! [11]
  • Few as the words were, Jane knew how infinitely much they implied. [13]
  • By those two words Orlando knew what was in the mind of Louise. [11]
  • Mr. Marmaduke was wont to rise at noon, and knew not wheat from barley, or good leaf from bad; his hands he kept like a lady’s, rendering them almost useless by the long lace on the sleeves, and his chief pastime was card-playing. [9]
  • The scene was wondrously beautiful, but Xanthe had not gone to the spring to gaze at the landscape; nay, she scarcely knew that it was lovely. [10]
  • He stared, and wondered, and finally said— ‘Well, I thought I knew how to steer a steamboat, but that was another mistake of mine. [5]
  • Cynthia listened, and wondered what language Miss Duncan would use if she knew how great and how complete that change had been. [9]
  • It was a woman’s reason, and it was not without a certain exquisite egotism and vanity, for she remembered so well the letter she had written him—every word was etched into her mind; and she knew by heart every word of his reply. [11]
  • And yet again, woman-like, she knew it would lead to the same conclusion: «You must go to-night? [11]
  • Who was this woman that knew her and her history? [11]
  • The little old woman scarce knew where she was for sheer amazement, nor wist she who he was till he broke out into his old loud laugh at the sight of her dismay. [10]
  • The Queen, less woman now than Queen, enraged by the information got he knew not how, had come at once to punish the gross breach of her orders and a dark misconduct-so he thought. [11]
  • I knew a woman in Newcastle —but there’s no use going into that, I guess. [9]
  • But the one witness to McGilveray’s adventure was dead, and that was why no man knew wherefore it was that McGilveray took an oath to drink no more till they captured Quebec. [11]
  • A half-mad woman, without memory, knew again whence she came and whither she was going; and bewildered and happy, with a hungering tenderness, moved her hand over the head of her poor dwarf, as though she would know if he were truly her own son. [11]
  • He could live without her—that he knew regretfully. [11]
  • I knew it without asking, but I wanted to hear you say it. [5]
  • He knew that within reach of Paula, and condemned to live with her, he could never recover his peace, but must suffer constant pangs. [10]
  • Blenker’s division was withdrawn from you before you left here, and you knew the pressure under which I did it, and, as I thought, acquiesced in it certainly not without reluctance. [7]

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