knotty

Example Sentences

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What Thompson-Hernández’s art so easily dispels, no matter the genre it finds a home in, are all the knotty, misguided and trite representations of otherness in our contemporary world.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 27, 2026

Of course, as with any knotty academic question, there are anomalies.

From BBC • Dec. 10, 2025

But she’s a reluctant sleuth in a knotty case with a head full of noise and a shaky hand on the lighter.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025

But that’s one episode — one and a half, if we treat “Plaything” as the preamble to a robust and morally knotty drama about humanity’s next stage of evolution — out of half a dozen.

From Salon • Apr. 10, 2025

I drag my garbage bag across the backyard and underneath the maple tree with thick leaves and knotty roots.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller