Sentence examples for knack that from inspiring English sources

It's a knack that might also be picked up, most enjoyably, by reading Ali Smith.

Yet he had an intuitive knack that enabled him to figure out almost anything.

The visual precision and storytelling knack that made that film so nightmarishly effective seem to have fled, leaving aimless artiness in their wake.

He may lack Blair's landslide majority and bulging coffers, but they reckon he's inherited Blair's Teflon exterior, the lucky knack that allows gaffes and missteps to go unpunished.

The Manchester-based duo can still write a catchy tune – a knack that fuelled their 2008 breakout That's Not My Name – but these songs are all surface, with only the odd hook to snag us.

It was a perfect example of the trio's pop take on Hi-NRG, a knack that led them to being branded "Schlock, Aimless and Waterdown" by the Guardian and that helped them sell 40m records over the next two years.

Having recovered from the back-knack that kept him out of the French Open, Andy Murray has the weight of a nation's expectations on his shoulders again.

The Mill took Norman Tebbit's advice this morning and got on its bike to find work, but due to a bad case of not-being-a-morning-person and resultant auto-pilot, ended up back at its usual desk, wondering whether it was set to be the latest casualty of the bowel-knack that is sweeping like a scythe through the ranks of the nation's left-leaning press.

All those unwanted Christmas presents will soon be heading their way, filling their shelves with wrong-sized clothing, doubled-up copies of comedy DVDs and mysterious knick-knacks that are neither use nor ornament.

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The Dodgers are a glorious centerpiece named Clayton Kershaw and a bunch of surrounding knick-knacks that are occasionally colorful but mostly baffling.