Sentence examples for as a knock at from inspiring English sources

Once your dog has mastered the "speak" command, you can teach her to bark at other specific cues, such as a knock at the door or the sound of the doorbell.

On the eve of World War I, one collection of "Library Jokes and Jottings" favored the first hypothesis, imagining a day in the life of a late-20th-century household as follows: "There was a knock at the front door, and the young people slid up the moving stairway, anticipating the parcel of books delivered each morning by the public library aeroplane service.

She said people should make sure they had up-to-date anti-virus software and adequate firewalls on home computers, and should "be as cautious with emails as you would be with a knock at the door", and never give security details away in response to an email.

As we were talking, there was a knock at the door and a young woman with long, light-brown hair, wearing tight jeans, boots, and a clingy sweater, walked in.

When there's a knock at the door tonight, as there will be, I won't be getting up to answer it.

As she casts a final glance over the table there is a knock at the door.

As we trudged into the kitchen to get started, we heard a knock at the door.

There was a knock at our door.

There is a knock at the door.

There's a knock at the door.

There was a knock at the door.