Sentence examples for knocks about from inspiring English sources
verb
Third person singular of knock about
The old knocks about Brooks still hold today.
"We've learned at the school of hard knocks about security".
Jewelry knocks about their swaying limbs and, save for thin cloths, they are naked.
Ernesto Cordero, the finance minister, has estimated that the violence knocks about a percentage point off Mexico's annual growth rate.The fighting is highly concentrated: last year 70% of mafia-related killings took place in 3% of the country's municipalities.
For starters, you can't even use a Hub unless you already have an account with Verizon Wireless, which immediately knocks about 70percentt of the American population out of the running.
Economists reckon that a $10 a barrel increase in the price of oil knocks about half a percentage point from global GDP growth, although some still expect oil prices to drop back later this year.
That knocked about 16% off the currency's value last year.
Managing his diabetes, however, knocked about $6,000 off his bill.
On tours, us kids would knock about together.
"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.
