KNIT in a Sentence

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120 example sentences for KNIT, such as:

1. Several knit, and a few sew a little.
2. And Scully knit his brows and eyed him narrowly.
3. She could knit up a baby's coat in an afternoon.
4. Weaving and knitting are traditional cottage industries.
5. The count knit his brows, and remained silent an instant.

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 Meanings and Examples of KNIT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
knit
 v.  form into fabric by intertwining
 v.  unite or cause to unite
Classic Sentence: (114 in 8 pages)
1  Then you may come, and I'll teach you to knit as the Scotchmen do.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTEEN
2  He saw the look, knit his heavy eyebrows, rubbed his hands, and marched abruptly away, saying he'd be back directly.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FIFTEEN
3  She told her story, expecting to be consoled, but Laurie only put his hands in his pockets and walked about the room, whistling softly, as he knit his brows in deep thought.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
4  So I have got his things in order, and knit heels into two pairs of the socks, for they were boggled out of shape with his queer darns.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
5  Several knit, and a few sew a little.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
6  There was nothing to do but knit all day and at night listen to Uncle Carey read aloud from the improving works of Mr. Bulwer-Lytton.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
7  Old Mrs. Shimerda knit yards and yards of lace for her underclothes.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: III
8  ""It does seem like I ought to make lace, or knit like Lena used to," she said one day, "but if I start to work, I look around and forget to go on."
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: III
9  And Scully knit his brows and eyed him narrowly.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 26
10  You are nearest and dearest and all the world to me; our souls are knit into one, for all life and all time.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
11  His brows are knit; his face is drawn with pain.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
12  His brows knit together into a wedge-like furrow, and with a twitch of pain he bit his underlip.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 5
13  The count knit his brows, and remained silent an instant.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 37. The Catacombs of Saint Sebastian.
14  It was evident from his pale face and knit brows that his resolution to revenge himself was growing weaker.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 88. The Insult.
15  Porthos fancied they were mystifying him, and began to curl his mustache and knit his eyebrows; but the knee of Mme.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 32 A PROCURATOR'S DINNER
Example Sentence:
1  She could knit up a baby's coat in an afternoon.
2  In a good report, individual sentences knit together in a clear way that readers can follow.
3  When he broke his leg, he sat around the house all day waiting for the bones to knit.
4  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.
5  Weaving and knitting are traditional cottage industries.
6  She knitted a pair of mittens for me with her nimble fingers.