How to Use knock in a Sentence

knock

1 of 2 verb
  • The dog knocked against the lamp.
  • The ball knocked him on the chin.
  • He knocked the baseball over the fence.
  • She knocked the glass from his hand.
  • The ball hit him in the mouth and knocked out one of his teeth.
  • The wind knocked him backwards.
  • Skaters were knocking into each other all over the ice.
  • I accidentally knocked my knee against the table.
  • My knee accidentally knocked against the table.
  • One guy knocked on the door first.
    — Nicole Comstock, CBS News, 18 Apr. 2026
  • All three were knocked to the ground.
    — Bridget Fogarty, jsonline.com, 9 Feb. 2026
  • That’s enough to knock me out, man.
    — Marc Ballon, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
  • None of it has knocked it off its perch.
    — Preston Fore, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2026
  • And then some thug comes along and knocks him over.
    — Adrienne Lafrance, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Ellen Lewis knocked it out of the park.
    — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 2 Feb. 2026
  • No one will call you; no one will knock on your door.
    — Elizabeth Palmer, CBS News, 15 Mar. 2026
  • The styling team has knocked it out of the park yet again.
    — Hannah Abraham, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • The home run knocked Ohtani out of the game.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 2 Nov. 2025
  • But this time Gray told them to knock it off.
    — Rebecca Ford, Vanity Fair, 11 May 2026
  • Serra could have knocked him out cold.
    — Timothy J. Pawl, The Conversation, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Did anyone knock you off your feet?
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Look for your moments to knock ‘em dead.
    — Joseph Person, New York Times, 24 June 2026
  • Martin knocked on the hunter’s small tent.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
  • So just trying to knock the rust off game by game.
    — Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 23 Mar. 2026
  • This equal parts cocktail may knock you on your ass.
    — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 21 Mar. 2026
  • David Strathairn, of course, knocked it out of the park.
    — Scott Feinberg, HollywoodReporter, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Once the buzz starts, fringe brands come knocking.
    — Chris Cardillo, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Hicks will knock three times on the cathedral door.
    — Tony Aiello, CBS News, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Two hours a day to knock a decade off your age sounds like a good trade.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 10 Mar. 2024
  • Spurs are a long way from knocking on that door yet.
    — Phil Hay, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2026

knock

2 of 2 noun
  • He gave him a knock on the head.
  • There was a loud knock at the door.
  • He likes praise but can't stand the knocks.
  • She took some knocks early in her career.
  • Then there was a knock on the door.
    — Veronica Fulton, NBC news, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Then there was a knock at the door.
    — Virginia Chamlee, People.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • And none of that is a knock on him.
    — Zach Harper, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2026
  • None of this is a knock on the work.
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 13 June 2026
  • In the movie, though, there’s no door knock.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025
  • That’s not a knock on the Knicks.
    — James L. Edwards Iii, New York Times, 27 May 2026
  • Again, none of that is a knock on Brown.
    — Mike Straw, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • There is a knock at the office door.
    — Jan Steyn, The Dial, 10 Mar. 2026
  • She was startled by a knock at the door.
    — Literary Hub, 1 Apr. 2026
  • There's a gentle knock at the door.
    — Ari Daniel, NPR, 29 Nov. 2025
  • The knock on this year’s group is the secondary.
    — Zach Berman, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2025
  • Rodney was told there was a knock on his front door.
    — Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 6 Apr. 2026
  • After the kids have gone to bed, there’s a knock at the door.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 6 Dec. 2023
  • This isn’t a knock on any of the hot sauces’ flavors, of course.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 9 Apr. 2026
  • That’s not a knock on any show on Netflix.
    — Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 2 Sep. 2025
  • On the third knock, a bleary-looking young man opens the door a crack.
    — Time, 24 Oct. 2022
  • LeBron is a nice guy, and that's not a knock.
    — Ricardo Klein, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The knock on Caissie has always been his swing and miss.
    — Sahadev Sharma, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2025
  • There was talk about his short arm length, a knock that Bain has laughed off.
    — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2026
  • That’s not a knock on my coaches or myself.
    — Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 12 Mar. 2026
  • One afternoon, there was a knock at the door.
    — Sarah Henry, Louisville Courier Journal, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Late in the afternoon there was a soft knock at the front door.
    — Literary Hub, 25 Nov. 2025
  • The only knocks on Young to this point have been his height and weight.
    — Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Some rope and stanchion kept them from knock, knocking on the wood.
    — Bryan West, Nashville Tennessean, 5 Oct. 2025
  • For others, a knock on the door by those kind of cops is a welcome gift.
    — Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 19 Feb. 2026
  • That's not a knock on McCormick.
    — Zev Fima, CNBC, 17 Mar. 2026

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