Sentence examples for knot about from inspiring English sources

To avoid straining it, the ship backs down along the streamer at about a half knot (about 1 kilometer an hour).

Many of my liberal friends have their boxers in a knot about Detroit, but most of them never get close to Detroit and most of them drive foreign nameplate cares.

Apartheid grew under Fugard's skin "like a boil that needed lancing," and his 1961 play, "Blood Knot," about two half brothers, one black and the other light-skinned, was, in Als's view, "the first cut".

Athol Fugard directs his 1961 two-hander, "Blood Knot," about biracial brothers, starring Colman Domingo and Scott Shepherd; "Hurt Village," a new drama by Katori Hall ("The Mountaintop"), set in a Memphis housing project, features Marsha Stephanie Blake and Tonya Pinkins.

And when I get frenzied and tied in a knot about the most ridiculous things, I go back to that moment in time.

Rick Santorum and his tea-partying cohorts have their knickers all in a knot about the government telling people what to do with their money.

We moved into the Aegean at 10 or 12 knots (about 11.5 to 13.8 mph), giant sails unfurled and snapping in the light breeze.

"If we slow a ship's speed by 20 percent, from, say, 23 knots to about 19 knots, you can save up to 40 percent of the fuel cost," said Tim Smith, who heads Maersk Line's North Asia operations.

Much of "Knots" is about strong women and the feats they can achieve when they are united.

The aircraft, traveling at about 404 knot and carrying about of jet fuel, hit between the 93rd and 99th floors of the North Tower.

For years, reaching speeds over 50 knots (about 57 m.p.h).