Sentence examples for reef knot from inspiring English sources

That and the reef knot.

To tie a reef knot in my laces, I have to try to tie a reef knot.

I believe that if my mother had known about the reef knot, she would have taught it to me.

Next: " 'Attach the flying line to the bridle loop.' " She tied the string with a reef knot ("the first knot we were taught at school"), looking pleased.

That's not because the fathers of Britain do not wish to be bothered by their children until they can tie a reef knot and sing the National Anthem.

Made up of two small coloured loops of rope, tied together by the wearer using a reef knot to symbolise standing together against cancer, the bands have so far raised £1m for cancer causes.

Amid purple lupins and verdant ferns we make camp, my unimpeachable reef knots holding the guy ropes tight.

Reading between the lines, I detect a loophole or two in the health and safety rules; there is no ban on using weapons against dinosaurs, nor on using reef knots and sheet bends to tie up one's prisoners.

But, though I plan to use the reef knots while wild camping later, I'm reminded, as I watch the back of a blue whale rise, and rise and rise, from the freezing Greenland Sea, that there are some things for which one can never be prepared.

The mood was especially tense for the Labour Party, whose capacity to tie itself in reef knots over this issue remains comically undiminished, and it was all too easy for May, on her feet in the House, to deride Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader.

And yet, while there was much debate concerning the morality of a 52-year-old male director telling two naked young actresses to contort themselves into human reef knots, the film won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, and went onto garner rave reviews.