Sentence examples for knuckles from inspiring English sources

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knuckles

noun

Plural of knuckle

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Witness 2 then saw [X] hold the sheep's head in his left hand as he punched the animal in the head, three more times, bloodying his knuckles and the sheep's head.

"I wouldn't like to know that I was a young'un now, with what they're going in to," says 69-year-old Howden, who has faded tattoos of playing card suits on his knuckles.

Related: Cameron's warning on Labour's £3,000 'tax rise' is shot down by IFS It is not the first time that the prime minister has had his knuckles rapped.

Knead, using your knuckles and the heel of your palm to stretch it out, folding it over, turning it.

Well, look around you, where else are you going to go?" He raps his knuckles anxiously on the table.

The posters show two clenched fists with the words "liar" spelled out above the knuckles of each and the Liberal Democrat logo above the "i" on the first.

Like why our knuckles crack when we pull them.

Fryer turned out to be adept at cracking his knuckles, and volunteered to have each of his ten fingers pulled, one by one, until they popped.

MRI scanners were used to observe finger joints as they "clicked", showing that the noise is made by bubbles forming in fluid that lubricates the knuckles.

When I ponder my decomposing professional life: the late payment, underpayment, nonpayment and general all-round personal and intellectual violation it inevitably involves, surely my knuckles cramp with cruel and unusual bewilderment or homicidal tetchiness?

As I read out reviews of an old Bill Nighy performance, the actor grimaces and drums his knuckles on the table.

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