KNOTTY in a Sentence

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Example sentences for KNOTTY, such as:

1. You'll find him a knotty problem, though.
2. What to Watson had been a knotty problem, to Sherlock Holmes was simplicity itself.
3. They flew over the lawn where an array of mighty old thorn trees, strong, knotty, and broad as oaks.
4. 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.

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 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6  The slab has here been replaced by a cross-beam, against which lean five or six shapeless fragments of knotty and petrified wood which resemble huge bones.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.