Sentence examples for knotty scheme from inspiring English sources

She is the ideal instrument for a knotty scheme of espionage and counter-espionage, being credulous and none too bright, while any peculiar behaviour is unremarkable to her because the novel is populated by self-absorbed eccentrics – a typical Mitford feature, which reached its zenith in her career-defining novels The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate.

Mr Crabb said the scheme - estimated at £309m to £463m - was "probably the most knotty" problem between the two governments but was soluble.

Such a knotty problem!

Other knotty issues abounded.

The Look Knotty by nature.

Knotty rules give bureaucrats power.

Those two questions are knotty ones.

These are knotty, unanswerable questions.

Here's a knotty one.

It was a knotty problem.

Such knotty problems lie ahead.