knock

Example Sentences

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Yesterday, events could have led to $200 a barrel for oil and all the other knock on effects as soon as this week.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026

“It takes a while to knock the big dog off the porch,” Carter said.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026

It had become the most powerful cyberweapon ever assembled, large enough to knock a state or even a small country offline.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

“It would surely happen,” said Rob Stutzman, a GOP strategist who helped Schwarzenegger knock Gov. Gray Davis out of office, and take his job, in the 2003 recall.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

I pick up a book and read for five minutes, and drift off…till I’m woken by a knock on the back door.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin