Sentence examples for knock by from inspiring English sources

This has become a decent knock by the Yorkshireman, albeit almost certainly in a losing cause.

(Already in the twenties, chemists proposed eliminating knock by increasing the octane level in gasoline, as was eventually done).

His was the best knock by any English batsman in the subcontinent that I've seen and it's the standard we all have to reach.

After drawing, a player whose unmatched cards (less one discard) total 10 points or less may "knock" (by physically rapping the playing surface or by making a verbal declaration).

For, according to Anita Brookner, the old certitudes had been given a mighty knock by the social changes expressed in the French Revolution; and a widespread attitude of scepticism towards them became, for many romantic artists, as indispensable a component of artistic amour-propre as the rock star's look of surly self-obsession.

Brilliant knock by Gayle.

"Australia's confidence will have taken a knock by the defeat.

"It was a magnificent knock by Finch and he won the game for Australia.