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358 examples of Knock in a sentence

As they began to eat, they heard a knock on the door.
And so the left generally believes that human nature is good: bring people together, knock down the walls and all will be well.
So, yeah, if you knock down all the walls, allow people to communicate all over the world, you get a lot of porn and a lot of racism.
And I'm not expecting the Nobel Prize committee to knock down my door, but it's a baby step, it's a little something.
Industry will not agree to increased regulation unless it believes this will stave off even more regulation or perhaps knock some competitors out of the market.
I knock it out of his hand.
I knock that out of his hand.
So instead of caving, John needs to knock on Jane's door, propose a creative strategy for having the meeting without the eight pre-meetings, show her he's thought through the trade-offs and ask for her support to do it differently.
They would knock down the shrine, and they would stop saying the god's name.
If we could crack them, we would get into the endgame, and after hours of work, in a magical moment, they both fall within 10 seconds of each other, and soon, we're on the final runaround, a series of clues that will lead us to the coin, and we're racing through the halls of MIT, trying not to knock over or terrify tour groups, when we realize we're not alone, there's another team on the runaround as well, and we don't know who's ahead.
This woman would have to knock me completely off course."
In our campaign to knock Columbus off his pedestal, we engaged in a visually provocative form of activism.
And as they repeatedly knock it down and start again, learning is happening as a sort of by-product of play.
Well, not quite, because the task allocator didn't know when a customer was going to drop a box of eggs, couldn't predict when some crazy kid was going to knock over a display, or when the local high school decided that everybody needed to bring in coconuts the next day.
Energetic gamma rays, x-rays, and UV photons knock electrons off of gas atoms within the disk, creating positive ions and negative electrons.
One theory suggests that high energy particles can knock more electrons off of some dust clumps, leaving them positively charged.
"I was convinced that there would be a knock on the door, and a man with a clipboard would be there to tell me that it was all over, that they'd caught up with me, and that I would now have to go and get a real job."
Now, when there's a knock on my door, I still feel like some sort of dark-suited clipboard man is going to be there to tell me that my time is kind of up.
It doesn't take long to knock down one of these poles.
Not only do they run away, but they dust themselves as they're running, as if to knock bees out of the air.
With that in mind, one way we can start is to work backwards from the three defects that could knock you out of the race.
And most people knock them down when they're small.
And like, knock like a woodpecker on my door until I opened it up.
Militia commanders walk into his village, knock on his neighbors' doors and whisk their children away to training camps.
And in a way, without us even noticing, has ended up standing on the precipice of its own extinction, waiting for us to give it a big boot and knock it over.
The forest part of it, right now, Sergey Zimov and Nikita go out with this old military tank they got for nothing, and they knock down the trees.
It's because it's a lot harder for knock-off artists to knock off these designs because they can't knock off the logo.
When people knock it off, everybody knows because they've put that look out on the runway, and it's a coherent aesthetic.
They knock themselves off.
Wouldn't it be nice to be able to knock on the door of a Chief Fairness Officer?
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