Sentence examples for that knock on from inspiring English sources

More and more people are dreading that knock on the door.

"It makes white water accessible in a way that, knock on wood, it's not going to kill you".

I've been incredibly, remarkably lucky in my work that — knock on wood — nothing truly terrible has happened to me, despite going to dangerous places.

As high-tech as the identifications will be, the notification will come the old-fashioned way, as they have been: that knock on the door.

"We have guys that knock on this door, and I can barely understand what they're saying," said Hector Nazario (Nicer), a member of TATS Cru.

As someone who was born in the Middle East and escaped war and persecution as a child, knowing what it is like to be without water or electricity, or fearing that knock on the door at any moment, I cannot comprehend the choices these young women make.

He told me that knock-on effects of other staff having to take up the slack left by sacked colleagues will be devastating for teaching at King's, and predicts that courses will suffer from fewer course choices, larger class sizes, demoralised staff and poor course organisation.

In a perspective published with the article, Jeremy Farrar, head of the Wellcome Trust, and Peter Piot, director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, warn that knock-on effects will kill many more people.

These threshold values are above the acceleration voltage (200 keV) in the present study, thus which leads us to exclude the possibility that knock-on damage induces the hole drilling and the formation of the new phases (Figs. 1 and 2).

"Imagine if you opened the door to every stranger that knocked on your door every day".

But it's worth asking: why do people who do not believe that knocking on wood has an effect on the world often do it anyway?