knocking

[ US /ˈnɑkɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /nˈɒkɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. the sound of knocking (as on a door or in an engine or bearing)
    the knocking grew louder
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How To Use knocking In A Sentence

  • Ray was knocking them down one by one, unlike his tragic ancestor who only knocked himself down.
  • My son caught it by knocking it off the car with a twig, then coaxing it on to a piece of card, and then putting it in a jam jar.
  • She narrowly missed out on gold to Pippa Funnell after knocking down a fence in the showjumping.
  • BELL: Now, under the law, police may enter a home without knocking if certain so-called exigent circumstances exist. CNN Transcript Aug 7, 2008
  • By ‘real’ stress I mean when the bank heavies are actually knocking on your door and it's pay up time on the arrears on the house payments.
  • As she crossed the fields a shell exploded close to her, fracturing her legs and knocking her to the ground.
  • The fox gave a yip as Ferric entered and pounced on the boy, easily knocking him over.
  • I thought we started positively and we were knocking it about but then we started to over-elaborate.
  • Heck, sometime the chips they carry are so large that you have to be a contortionist to avoid knocking them over.
  • Strangely, having run his fastest to get to her, Hyacinth seemed almost reluctant to knock at the door, or enter without knocking, and while he was hesitating on the doorstone her singing ceased, and she came out to see whose fleet footsteps had stirred the small stones of the pathway. The Hermit of Eyton Forest
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