Sentence examples for like a knot from inspiring English sources
The circle of boys cinched like a knot.
This is a real contradiction, clenched like a knot at the heart of the book.
Its strange possessive mewling, crouched over the wren, the bird like a knot of wood.
When Nell sat up, one of her small breasts showed, the nipple dark brown like a knot in wood.
Even so it remains a patch of obscurity, like a knot in wood that there is no way to straighten into intelligible, smooth running grain.
Even when her partners place her into his arms, he doesn't begin to possess or comprehend her: she's curled up like a knot.
If you'd like a top knot and your hair is too thin on its own to make a decent bun, you can use either a weft (extension) or a hair doughnut to help create the impression of more thickness.
"It was like a knotted skein slowly unraveling," he wrote.
How many more Costcos and Sam's Clubs and BJ's and Home Depots and WalMart Superstores are there...and that's just in America...and just how much stuff can the world produce...and how much waste will all this stuff generate?" And more than once at moments like these, with a knot in my stomach, I have thought to myself "We're screwed.
When the bombers were identified as British men with names like his, "a knot tightened at the pit of my stomach", he wrote in The Guardian.
Then she belted out the cautionary lyrics—"So if the ties that bind ever do come loose / Tie 'em in a knot like a hangman's noose"—as brassy as Carrie Underwood doing "Before He Cheats".
