Sentence examples for he knocked around from inspiring English sources

Before becoming successful in politics, he knocked around from job to job — carpenter, tax clerk, freelance writer.

That first summer, he knocked around: tried Monday qualifying at a few Nike Tour events, played on a few mini-tours and got ready for the fall qualifying school.

Then he knocked around New York and Miami, taking odd jobs.

And with the three members of his band, he knocked around all sorts of syncopations or sailed over them with long lines from a lap steel guitar.

After his 10-minute swim - no towel, no shivering - he knocked around the boardwalk air-drying and chatting with the regulars and smiling at the Russian women with their fur coats and walkers.

He used to play locally with aging New Orleans musicians and the young Cecil Taylor; he knocked around Europe for around 30 years, polishing a vast body of work that crested in the 1980's.

In his youth, he had knocked around, too, and he had made two marriages to older women who taught him bearing, elocution, and couth.

"Now the witnesses just tell a different story: that he got punched and kicked, and he got knocked around and the cops didn't".

"He is not a huge man, and he gets knocked around a lot," says Wood. "Each big tournament, whether it is a Six Nations, a Lions tour, or a World Cup, is great, but they all take something out of you physically".

The D.C. United captain, Ryan Nelson, said: "People are saying that he has to be protected in games, but I know that he will become a better player if things don't go right for him and he gets knocked around a bit".

He was knocked around, allowing five runs in five innings.