How to Use knitting in a Sentence

knitting

noun
  • She keeps her knitting in the closet.
  • What are the best knitting yarns to buy?
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Put down the knitting, the book and the broom as cabaret has come back, too.
    — New York Times, 17 June 2021
  • The shelves are filled mostly with books on sewing and knitting.
    — Joanne Kempinger Demski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2022
  • As the knitting takes shape, layers of stones are added and tamped down.
    — The Economist, 8 May 2021
  • Stick to your knitting — but be clear and firm on issues where the law is on your side.
    — Neil Irwin, Axios, 5 Dec. 2024
  • The store sells tools needed for knitting, like yarn, and hosts events to learn how to knit.
    — Ana Rocío Álvarez Bríñez, The Courier-Journal, 28 Apr. 2023
  • While some take up baking or even knitting, these two took up boxing.
    — azcentral, 26 Mar. 2018
  • For now, that means quiet days at home, knitting and reading.
    — Adam Galler, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Guests are welcome to bring their knitting or crochet projects.
    — courant.com, 24 Feb. 2022
  • Tomas in his tight midnight-black sweater, skin peeking through the knitting.
    — Vulture, 17 Oct. 2023
  • The butter-wouldn’t-melt knitting granny?
    — Raven Smith, Vogue, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Perhaps a monument to the fox will one day join the knitting mouse.
    — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 21 Aug. 2017
  • Spare some of your knitting yarn to make these super cute star ornaments.
    — Angela Belt, House Beautiful, 9 Nov. 2022
  • The knitting guild draws its members from across the county and beyond.
    — Beth Lipoff, Kansas City Star, 29 Jan. 2025
  • Small things like baking bread and knitting became a source of comfort.
    — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 8 Nov. 2021
  • Not only is the brand a great for resource knitting projects of all levels (sweaters!
    — Talia Abbas, Glamour, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Yardage Always, always check the yardage of a skein of knitting yarn.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 23 Sep. 2025
  • But at its simplest, knitting requires just two needles and some string.
    — Connie Chang, Popular Mechanics, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Classes were held in the back; a wide array of yarn was for sale, as were tools for knitting and crochet.
    — Rachel Felder, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2020
  • But there were a lot of group gatherings of guilds and spinning or knitting circles.
    — Jinnie Lee, Vogue, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Re-knitting is a type of re-weaving only used to repair knit garments.
    — Arkansas Online, 22 Feb. 2021
  • This is a no-frills shop with just a good selection of yarns and knitting accessories.
    — Abby Hamblin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Dec. 2025
  • For some, that looks like journaling, walking, or knitting.
    — Michelle Beadle Holder, SELF, 16 Mar. 2026
  • This group brings in their own projects, such as knitting or crochet, and assists people who are stuck with their projects.
    — courant.com, 2 July 2021
  • Risch, for example, led a knitting circle to teach others the craft.
    — Sarah Hauer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Oct. 2017
  • Thoma Bravo has largely stuck to its knitting in buyouts.
    — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 27 Jan. 2026
  • With each Games, both the sweater and its knitting pattern are available for sale to the public.
    — Richard Martyn-Hemphill, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2018
  • For them, knitting supplies are an essential piece of mental health gear.
    — Alana Wise, NPR, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Creating a pair of pants with a 3D knitting machine takes about two hours.
    — Alden Wicker, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2024

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