Sentence examples for knows down to from inspiring English sources

But the book's first thirty pages, set in Ireland, a world she knows down to its roots, have a kind of vitality and particularity absent from the chapters set elsewhere.

Orders are transmitted by waiters via wireless mic to "Skynet," a bank of computers that instinctively knows — down to the second — when cooking for the next course should begin.

Ms. Gonzalez also knows, down to the last cent, how much she needs to buy all the things she cannot have: $2.85 for liquid soap, $2.30 for cooking oil and $10 to buy her daughter another pair of dressy shoes.

Releasing one's grip, this movie knows down to its bones, can be as painful as it is necessary.

So when Obama talks about democracy, he knows down to the nitty gritty what he's talking about.

I guess the final numbers are now at 306 da-- and she -- you know, down to a very low number.

People know, down to the tiniest detail, the ramifications of catastrophic flooding should the levees not hold.

(Bakst may have been working in 1921, but he was remounting an 1890 production, which he knew down to the last hair ribbon).

Just when it seems everything is known, down to the precise second of a Nixon sneeze on any given day, something else emerges.

This is now known down to the last atom, and this achievement should rank with Watson and Crick's elucidation of the DNA structure.

"... We use the lamprey as a model for investigating the role of this phasic modulation of the reticulospinal activity, because the brainstem spinal cord networks are known down to the cellular level in this phylogenetically oldest extant vertebrate.