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Knocked in sentence

372 examples of Knocked in a sentence

I went and knocked on the door of the Rio Tinto Chair of Advanced Mineral Extraction at the Royal School of Mines and said, "How do you make steel?"
But getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.
You can get knocked down, and it hurts and it leaves scars.
And I knocked on the door.
The heat from the explosion set fire to the forest below it, and then the shock wave came down and knocked down trees for hundreds of square miles.
FG: People on the street came and knocked on the door to see if I was okay.
And as you can see, it's been knocked about a bit, which is not surprising because it was made two and a half thousand years ago and was dug up in 1879.
My gas consumption plummeted, because I started tinkering with the thermostat and the timing on the heating system, and I knocked more than half off my gas bills.
There's a similar story for my electricity consumption, where switching off the DVD players, the stereos, the computer peripherals that were on all the time, and just switching them on when I needed them, knocked another third off my electricity bills, too.
He was petrified he would be knocked in the water.
If you know anything about anatomy, that's not a good thing to get cut, and everything, of course, on the way up, and then — I still had my hands up — he pulled it out and went for my neck, and sunk it in up to the hilt in my neck, and I got one straight right punch and knocked the middle guy out.
This one entered her left hemisphere, and knocked out her Broca's area, the speech center of her brain.
In New Orleans, the I-10 Twin Spans, with sections knocked out in Katrina, have been rebuilt 21 feet higher to allow for greater storm surge.
Herschel helped by making tidal observations off the coast of South Africa, and, as he complained to Whewell, he was knocked off the docks during a violent high tide for his trouble.
Cyber espionage is spiriting away advanced designs to parts unknown, and in that environment, it is very likely that a successful drone design will be knocked off in contract factories, proliferate in the gray market.
So the police knocked on the door, and told us they were going to arrest us if we carried on mentioning the word venereal disease.
Today we would say something like, well, imagine you were knocked unconscious and sodomized.
I knocked at the door of my wonderful advisor, Reggie Edgerton, to share my new idea.
None of us ever get through this life without heartache, without turmoil, and if you believe and you have faith and you can get knocked down and get back up again and you believe in perseverance as a great human quality, you find your way.
The worst thing that happened to him in Afghanistan was one of his men was hit in the head with a bullet in the helmet, knocked him over.
The bullet had just knocked him out.
My charges were dismissed, but a few weeks later, two FBI agents knocked on my door, and they told me that unless I helped them by spying on protest groups, they would put me on a domestic terrorist list.
Her friend was gagged, attacked, and knocked unconscious.
It dramatically knocked back her cancer.
I went downtown and knocked on the door.
When I knocked on the door, the woman came to the door, and she looked at me, and she said, "Can I help you?"
He kind of knocked the wind out of me.
On January 2, 1990, Natasha was at home and a man knocked on her door.
They ran squarely into one another in such a way that he knocked the books right out of her hand.
The collisions must have two important characteristics: One, correct orientation that allows books to be knocked from one's hands; and two, enough energy to knock the books out.
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