KNOTTY in a Sentence
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Example sentences for KNOTTY, such as:
1. You'll find him a knotty problem, though.
2. What to Watson had been a knotty problem, to Sherlock Holmes was simplicity itself.
3. They flew over the lawn where an array of mighty old thorn trees, strong, knotty, and broad as oaks.
4. Struggling and kicking under the cuts of the cane and the blows of the knotty stump Stephen was borne back against a barbed wire fence.
2. What to Watson had been a knotty problem, to Sherlock Holmes was simplicity itself.
3. They flew over the lawn where an array of mighty old thorn trees, strong, knotty, and broad as oaks.
4. Struggling and kicking under the cuts of the cane and the blows of the knotty stump Stephen was borne back against a barbed wire fence.
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Meanings and Examples of KNOTTY
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knotty
a. tied in knots; covered with knots or knobs; difficult to understand or solve
Classic Sentence:
1 But I'm made of knotty Aroostook hemlock; I don't budge.
2 He must once have been a very strong man, but now his great frame, with big, knotty joints, had a wasted look, and the skin was drawn tight over his high cheekbones.
3 There was a grass-grown track descending the forest aisle between hoar and knotty shafts and under branched arches.
4 You'll find him a knotty problem, though.
5 Struggling and kicking under the cuts of the cane and the blows of the knotty stump Stephen was borne back against a barbed wire fence.
6 The slab has here been replaced by a cross-beam, against which lean five or six shapeless fragments of knotty and petrified wood which resemble huge bones.
7 He ended; the other, putting out all his strength, hurls his rough spear, knotty and unpeeled.
Example Sentence:
1 They flew over the lawn where an array of mighty old thorn trees, strong, knotty, and broad as oaks.
2 What to Watson had been a knotty problem, to Sherlock Holmes was simplicity itself.