knot
Example Sentences
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Unlike the hotel brand’s other luxury accommodations, this one can travel at 17 knots.
And that I’d just compromised her identity this morning at the butcher shop—well, I felt a knot tighten in my stomach.
From Literature
“Around this ‘ticker’ gathered and grouped a knot of eager, nervous, and anxious men,” wrote an astonished observer in 1880.
From Barron's
“Around this ‘ticker’ gathered and grouped a knot of eager, nervous, and anxious men,” wrote an astonished observer in 1880.
From Barron's
All these threads, obviously, are bound for a single knot.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
