Sentence examples for knocking as if from inspiring English sources

And paradoxically, all the attention to this obscure room on a drab corridor has brought newcomers knocking, as if at the door of a speakeasy.

They called her talent "the voice," never her voice, as if it had walked in the front door without knocking, as if it belonged to no one exactly.

She opened the door as soon as I knocked, as if she had been expecting someone.

An ear to the pipe turns up a groaning, knocking noise, as if this great artery of wealth were in need of an angioplasty.

He hit a ball to right that the wind knocked down, as if some supernatural force was working against him.

One relative said Valencia's teeth had been knocked inward as if "he had been struck by something" and his body showed signs of having received blows.

At the crash site, where hundreds of pine trees were knocked down as if by a tornado, deep grooves were dug in the mud by the plane's wheels.

We must demonstrate Our Power out in the open, across all communities, across an entire nation, in a radical eruption of our refusal to be controlled, manipulated, set up and knocked down as if we no longer matter.

It's as if Paul Krugman kept knocking Keynes, or as if our own Anthony Lane took out after Belgian neo-realist cinema.

There are still real-life Dukes of York, Gloucester etc knocking around, too, as if to say, hey, plus ça change.

I have driven through the city's waterfront district, knocking down pillars as if they were dominoes ("Pier pillar: $1,000," the game reported dutifully. "Cafe windows: $7,000. Water truck: $50,000").