Sentence examples for were knowing from inspiring English sources

There were knowing chuckles.

The songs were knowing, wisecracking and full of slang, mother wit and sexual cockiness.

Others were knowing and wry, as if gesturing at the femme fatale.

Wouldn't a contemporary artist feel obliged add a tinge of irony or innuendo to make it clear that they were "knowing" and "sophisticated"?

There were knowing nods when Suzanne C. Carothers, an education professor at New York University, read a Langston Hughes poem called "Mother to Son".

Its original readers, whether they were knowing or curious, were apt to be of boarding-school age or a little older.

Personal Integrity is knowing what you know.

"I am knowing, Father.

I am knowing this man.

It's knowing false modesty.

But so is knowing the drawbacks.