Sentence examples for knock about from inspiring English sources
verb
To spend time companionably; to hang around.
- I used to knock about with John when we were younger.
On tours, us kids would knock about together.
They were good days: we'd knock about as mates, and Albert was content to play Indian in my cowboy schemes.
There's nothing like the first Halo's seminal level, The Silent Cartographer, which gave us a rounded island on which to knock about freely.
If you try to get Odette, say, to leave Keith and knock about with Ken (they all have Disney names) she gets upset.
If we had all the money in the world, we'd still want a toy in the garage, a sort of stealth sports car we could knock about in fast and hard then park it on the street without fear.
But the lack of a low range means that, even though the all-wheel drive system lets you easily knock about ranch country or ascend a rugged fire road, descending such terrain would excessively work the transmission and brakes.
That knocked about 16% off the currency's value last year.
Managing his diabetes, however, knocked about $6,000 off his bill.
"I had been knocked about very considerably," he remarks.
"In the tsuris contest, we all got knocked about," she said of her mother's death.
So, a pretty standard Saturday evening of getting knocked about by the All Blacks then.
