Knees in example sentence

Twenty or 30 years ago, if a bank in North America lent too much money to some people who couldn't afford to pay it back and the bank went bust, that was bad for the lender and bad for the borrower, but we didn't imagine it would bring the global economic system to its knees for nearly a decade.

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When you open your hands to catch and wind up with only blisters and bruises; when you step out of the phone booth and try to fly and the very people you want to save are the ones standing on your cape; when your boots will fill with rain, and you'll be up to your knees in disappointment.

My knees still buckle every time I get on a stage.

And it's very, very simple because all that happens is that the puppeteer breathes with his knees.

He looks, it's a dog, he drops to his knees.

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