How To Use Knowing In A Sentence

  • Moreover, I realized -- experienced, even -- at long last, that "the Body of Christ" is a good deal more than a figure of speech; it is an appalling truth and mystery, uniting us beyond our knowing with one another, and uniting us with an ever greater mystery, the perichoresis ( "circling dance") of the Holy Trinity Who is our One God. Scott Cairns: Recovering the Body of Christ
  • They are hired to crack a safe, photograph the contents of a locked briefcase inside, and return it to the owner without him knowing.
  • Opening to the power of intention, you begin knowing that conception, birth and death are all natural aspects of the energy field of creation. Wayne Dyer 
  • Knowing the innate power of the press, he bought a mimeograph machine.
  • Knowing and understanding our limitation is very crucial and a significant part of emancipating ourselves from its control.
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  • He looked at the capable assistant with sincere eyes knowing that this would rattle him into some flustered explanation of his whereabouts.
  • The relevant principle is that if a member causes loss to the council he/she is liable to make good that loss if he/she has misconducted him/herself knowing that loss may result.
  • 't think that when people grow up, they will become morebroad-minded and can accept everything. Conversely, I think it's aselecting process, knowing what's the most important and what's theleast. And then be a simple man.
  • I don't think I look pregnant to the unknowing eye (like I've always had this little paunch), but to those who do know it's there, it's really there.
  • He stood and brushed the crumbs of bread off of him, knowing well how difficult it would be to follow his own advice.
  • We can well afford to let them stare and smile, well knowing that if a similar amount of prosperity permitted the people of other countries to travel for their pleasure in similar numbers, the result would be at the very least an equally -- shall I say undrawing-room-like contribution to cosmopolitan society? Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875
  • At home in Harrogate, Leon's mother watched as news of the disaster broke, knowing of her son's plan to dive on Boxing Day.
  • Knowing as much as you can about the problem is helpful in finding solutions. Coping with Stress at Work
  • Mortgage brokers report that borrowers increasingly want the security of knowing how much their mortgage repayments will cost for the next decade. Times, Sunday Times
  • As a person, though, she is very knowing, which is why she's trying to get through the whole thing with a minimum amount of fuss.
  • This was no obvious gaffe as it would have been had it emanated from the lips of George Bush, oh no, this was perhaps a "knowing casualism". Look, Obama just doesn't make gaffes, OK?
  • How did it come to be that he, lustrous Kennington, had to instruct these limp-wristed ladies in something he was born knowing? Shortcut Man
  • Just the thought of going into a fish shop and knowing you can get something that's gluten free with no hassle and no fuss is wonderful.
  • Knowing how to write letters for all occasions is useful. Letter Writing: Write Formal & Informal Letters & Notes « Articles « Literacy News
  • `And you an SRN, and knowing all the latest hospital ways. THE WHITE DOVE
  • This way the bad guys will breakin to your home rob, rape your wives, daughters, rob your home, carjack you, and all other crimes they can commit against you knowing you can not defend yourself. Senate rejects concealed weapons bill
  • In between the 9th (1987) and 10th (1993) editions, the M-W lexicographers discovered that the people who had imported the bird into the western US called it simply "chukar," not "chukar partridge," and furthermore pronounced it in a completely anglicized form, not knowing or caring that that made it a homophone of some polo term. Languagehat.com: CHUKAR.
  • In reality the record suggests that it is rare for knowingly false accusations to be made against British troops. Times, Sunday Times
  • Ewood Park is an all-seater stadium but few stayed seated as fans stood anxiously, knowing either side could lose.
  • It's a clever business tactic: Not only is the donation tax-deductible, but participating nonprofits bring in their lists, and shoppers are incentivized to buy, knowing the profits go to worthy causes. Artful Style on the Bowery
  • Now, two weeks after her visit to Paris Crater, missing Hannah already but knowing that the girl must be safe in the firmary, Ada found herself lost in thought during the carriole ride over the hills to home. Ilium
  • Knowing that you have a genetic disposition is not necessarily helpful. Times, Sunday Times
  • You can then take off with complete confidence, knowing that you have checked all the really vital things for the flight.
  • Even knowing this, I still feel very chauvinistic about some of our native grains.
  • The committee heard Miss Coles knowingly misled her managers about the number of unallocated cases.
  • While upgradeability wasn't a primary concern, knowing that it can be greatly expanded in the future adds definite value.
  • I remember Michael sleeping in your room on several occasions and mom not knowing about it.
  • 't think that when people grow up, they will become morebroad-minded and can accept everything. Conversely, I think it's aselecting process, knowing what's the most important and what's theleast. And then be a simple man.
  • An unidentified pilot could be no more than a private aviator who unknowingly sends out a wrong signal on his transponder.
  • There is only so long you can ignore that kind of behaviour, even knowing that the little blighter has a bowl filled to the brim with tasty kitty treats in the kitchen.
  • How can any woman rest easy now, knowing her breast cancer may be misdiagnosed?
  • In any case, Pang et al. may have unknowingly found an unstated risk for hospital birth of having a mildly premature baby.
  • The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can't have them.
  • Gentlemen, we will chase perfection, and we will chase it relentlessly, knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we shall catch excellence. Vince Lombardi 
  • It is knowing this about human nature that we set up safeguards to prevent us from being our worst.
  • The show cloaks itself in wholesome, old-fashioned japery with its broad misunderstandings ("I said ghosts, not goats!") and knowing winks at Hi-de-Hi! and Frank Spencer, and the way Miranda's mother (Patricia Hodge) flits in and out as if through a time portal to a 1950s Whitehall farce. Rewind TV: Miranda; The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret; Accused: Willy's Story; Garrow's Law
  • With the caveat that I'd have absolutely no chance of knowing much about the American avifauna, my guess would be a turnstone Arenaria sp. What is this bird?
  • Maybe his vision could have been blinkered by already knowing the players personally.
  • ‘I try my best to suppress my policy wonk instincts, but I don't always succeed,’ he admits, with a knowing laugh at the stereotype he so ably fills.
  • Instantly a dozen knowing eyes were fixed on it, and a buzz of voices was heard; and soon Gerard saw the prior point more than once, and the monk came back, looking as proud as Punch, with a savoury crustade ryal, or game pie gravied and spiced, for Gerard, and a silver grace cup full of rich pimentum. The Cloister and the Hearth
  • ‘Zero visibility means holding a 50,000 - candlepower light in your hand and not knowing it's on,’ explains Butch Hendrick of Lifeguard Systems.
  • While knowing total expenditures in lobbying is good I would like to see some breakdown as to where all of that money is going, to see exactly whose pockets are filling as a result of the largess being spread around. Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » $3.47 billion spent. Did you get a pony?
  • But real wisdom means knowing truth from falsehood, knowing the difference between evidence and wishful thinking.
  • We don't trade them, except for dried fruits and at times iron and cuprite, but the Lady Ryalth can tell from knowing that prices are changing what else may be affected. The Magi'i Of Cyador
  • I'm proud of my baby body, knowing that it gave my son a comfy vessel in which to gestate and has been the source of all his nourishment since birth.
  • Do you think you can just prance around like that without me knowing where you're going?
  • ‘I still haven't had the pleasure of knowing your name,’ she murmured in a husky voice.
  • I don't want to sound like a begging, grovelling idiot, but I am genuinely in pain knowing that I cant go.
  • And, perhaps more pertinently, why do we insist on knowing about it in the first place?
  • A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away. George Eliot 
  • It is a brilliant idea that gives people reassurance and peace of mind, knowing that their wishes will be found and acted on. Times, Sunday Times
  • The arch-bishop himself, Æthelnoth, came from Canterbury to witness our troth; I could scarce raise my eyes to him, knowing as he must every blemish of my soul.
  • Crews endure loneliness, sensory deprivation, disorientating microgravity and the anxiety of knowing the vacuum of space is kept from them by an aluminium hull just a few millimetres thick.
  • Knowing that, stand back and let the battles commence. Times, Sunday Times
  • A gamine ingenue to her sophisticated divorcee, she plays this streetwise waif with the same knowing naivety that made the 12-year-old such a disturbingly seductive assassin's helpmate in her first film, Leon.
  • And, as soon as we know the facts, we can stop all the conclusionary statements, that it's a big mess, that it's a purge, without really knowing exactly what happened. CNN Transcript Mar 19, 2007
  • There is knowing and there is faith, the knowable is provable to a certain extent, faith is not, thus perpetuating the latter's own need tautologically. TEXAS FAITH: What's the role of religion in public education? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
  • While I was conducting a deliverance meeting, without my knowing it, an unsaved couple came to the Lord.
  • I have never knowingly had a friend who was sexually involved with a married man.
  • A few minutes later the ship was sailing away north, knowing that they might be marooning their shipmates with them, but knowing that they had no other choice.
  • Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich. Lao Tzu 
  • Practice your wood craft, 80 percent of killing a gobbler is knowing the woods you hunt and moving and setting up carefully. I want to start spring turkey hunting and I dont know how to start out.
  • Knowing I was ill she messengered me over some echinacea and zinc and ginger tea.
  • John smirked knowingly as his compatriots gasped in unison.
  • Knowing the results show most are late, we hope less stigma is attached to finishing late, as it is the rule rather than the exception.
  • It must be so redeeming knowing you have to plasticize yourself to the teeth to try to look attractive The Superficial - Because You're Ugly
  • However, it is worth knowing what symptoms to look for.
  • The former cardinal is now very happy to have been promoted to such a high position, knowing he will now be remembered forever. 2009 December 04 « The BookBanter Blog
  • Knowing the names of these beings gave the magician power to act against them.
  • They are all grown-ups, with national security credentials and a history of knowing how the government works.
  • Professing not to know that his nubile young companion on one particularly debauched evening was a call girl is even worse than knowing, and then trying to brazen your way out of it.
  • But atavistic, or vestigial, geotropism in Genesistrine -- or a million larvae start crawling, and a million little frogs start hopping -- knowing no more what it's all about than we do when we crawl to work in the morning and hop away at night. The Book of the Damned
  • Very few people, even propagandists knowingly lie, and they tend to believe what they peddle is in fact very true. Matthew Yglesias » Chait Responds
  • And all the time her eyes, with their long lashes in their dark hollow sockets will gaze into the eyes of a man who loved her truly and knowingly married her.
  • They picked the number out of their ass, knowing they'd need to 'backpedal' later … but 'later' is too late for the suckers who plunked their cash down, isn't it?] Conceptual Guerilla - Central Command in the War of Ideas
  • Without breathalysing the cows individually, it seemed, there would be no way of knowing for sure.
  • Those of us who had the honour and the rare advantage of knowing him intimately and well over many years find, upon looking back upon that vast experience, something unique, over and above the learning, over and above the application of that learning to Thomism, which is surely the very heart of the Dominican affair. Belloc Speaks - To the Undying Memory
  • I then hunkered down and got real serious, knowing I was going to have to fly the best instrument approach of my life.
  • I have had the benefit of knowing the farm and its problems for some time now and have taken advice on the price that I shall offer.
  • Without knowing the background to the case, I couldn't possibly comment.
  • We go through our lives knowing only how to tie one or two knots. Times, Sunday Times
  • Humans are also preoccupied by fantasy & fiction of all types, even especially? knowing that it is *fiction*, we do not have to hypothesize a platonic realm to explain that... Free Will and Behavioral Genetics, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • At that moment, his was a saint's blithesome face, loose and half a-smile with the generosity of his gift and with a becoming neutrality toward his own abilities, as if he had long since cheerfully submitted to knowing that however well he rendered a piece, he could always imagine doing better. Cold Mountain
  • But not with envy, but with nauseousness knowing that Mike MacLean trusted you with Murderati. COLOR ME BADD
  • I couldn't tell how well or badly I was doing since it was like taking part in a game without knowing the rules.
  • The tidy committee men regard them with horror,knowing that no pigeonholes can be found for them.
  • With a sigh Aislinn turned and slowly entered the thicket herself, knowing he must settle the problem himself within his own mind. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
  • Juliet McMaster explores how in juvenilia in general the presence of "sexual knowingness in a child, especially a girl" is usually met with "resistance": "[w] riting and doing it are seen as perilously close, although the same assumption would not apply in the case of subjects less loaded" ( "Virginal Representations" 304-5, close window 'Pleasure is now, and ought to be, your business': Stealing Sexuality in Jane Austen's _Juvenilia_
  • She suddenly felt that even in knowing James, and in befriending him, that she was betraying Khalid's memory.
  • Anybody can laugh in joy, but the bold ones also smile in pain...knowing that pain is just like a zooming train, that will soon pass by. RVM 
  • If this bald truth makes any one of us feel uncomfortable, we can take some solace in knowing we are not the only species to exploit the lie.
  • Without them even knowing, the anti-establishment was rapidly becoming the establishment.
  • Knowing that the club would still have a home at which to play would be a massive boost for any would-be investor.
  • So I call a meeting and announce a new policy on defaulted contracts, and I get these knowing looks.
  • Sometimes consumers may be quite happy buying a low-priced branded product knowing that it is a counterfeit copy.
  • Then I realized it wasn't Gantry of whom I was reminded so much as another Lewis character, Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip, the politician who poses as a populist, then once elected president turns the United States into a fascist dictatorship, aided by an angry, unknowing electorate and a paramilitary group called the Minute Men. Michael Winship: The Awful Price for Teaching Less Than We Know
  • Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love. John Steinbeck 
  • My favorite Red Lion patrons were Avery and her marra, Avery, a couple with the only similarity, besides the same name of course, being that they both went to the same school without ever knowing each other.
  • How are they supposed to make it in the outside world if they leave school not knowing how to speak properly? Times, Sunday Times
  • Anonymous said ... mungo is fifty?!?! will the test be worse than knowing that the prez of the united states is younger than you, and will be taking a lot of your money? Celebrating Inauguration Day in Style
  • A key provision in the Act criminalized knowing membership in an organization that advocated the forcible overthrow of the government, and imposed a penalty of up to twenty years of imprisonment.
  • He turned to gaze at the lake and then shook his head in a knowing way.
  • I hear from many people after the classes that they had been at wits' end, almost in tears, not knowing what to do with problem behaviors and not sure anything would help, says Hassel. Pet Talk: Be a Responsible Dog Owner
  • Privately he thanked me, knowing I could have killed him in the name of self-defense. Blue Rage, Black Redemption
  • It appears that what I said was untrue, but I did not knowingly lie to you.
  • In light of this "curious case of the cacophonous snack pack," I find that many people see sustainability as a version of a Faustian dilemma; they often knowingly make choices that have immediate personal benefits, but in the long run are disastrous for all of us. Ron Ashkenas: Sustainability's Faustian Dilemma
  • He said that many girls use substandard coloured contact lenses without knowing the negative effects like serious eye injuries and inflamed cornea.
  • Dozens of folk had leaky roofs fixed or heating installed without knowing who their benefactor was. Times, Sunday Times
  • Knowing an opportunity to make a quick buck, he takes the thing to a zoologist who just happens to be visiting the area.
  • They stop work, attend to and resolve before sleep any inharmonious conditions that may arise, knowing that creativity lies dormant while conflict prevails.
  • The prevalence of competitions in general shows the American need to be better than anyone else at something, whether it is selling cars or memorizing state capitals or knowing how to spell dvandva. A Conversation with Myla Goldberg about Wickett's Remedy
  • Cameron and Hague both continue to shilly-shally on this topic which makes many suspect that they will seek to avoid the issue if they can, knowing that a vote then to reject the Treaty would open up the whole issue of our membership of the EU at a stroke. Archive 2008-03-02
  • Don't give me that bull about not knowing the time.
  • The extras were derived from the local population and Jones remembers: ‘They were all very knowing because they'd all worked for Franco Zeffirelli on Jesus of Nazareth.’
  • She takes hold of my hand, and having roll'd up her own petticoats, forced it half strivingly towards those parts, where, now grown more knowing, I miss'd the main object of my wishes; and finding not even the shadow of what I wanted, where every thing was so flat, or so hollow, in the vexation I was in at it, I should have withdrawn my hand but for fear of disobliging her. Fanny Hill, Part II (first letter)
  • Then he proceeded to turn it over, leaf by leaf, and took exact notice of all in it: and it being _full of pictures of sundry mens cuts_, he could tell the palsgrave, who seemed also to be knowing in that kind, that this and this, and that and that, were of such a man's graving and invention. Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance
  • They smiled at each other, both knowing that they were smiling because something had changed.
  • Whilst you may not have knowingly consumed alcohol it should have been clear you were drinking alcohol. The Sun
  • So knowing the pedigree of our drinks is a logical next step. Times, Sunday Times
  • He is also indicted with knowingly and intentionally combining, conspiring, confederating with people to possess with intent to distribute the substance in violation of US laws.
  • If there is a God I hope that he takes me first then I can go with a contented mind knowing that she did not suffer this dreadful disease any longer.
  • This isn't to knock all priests who hear confessions - many are compassionate and have a gift of knowing just what to say.
  • The claimant originally pleaded that the bank was guilty of knowing receipt of funds transferred in breach of trust.
  • Knowing you, your demolition plans are probably very belt-and-braces, so we can space the bores a bit wider and put more explosive in each one. ' A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away
  • How did they live with themselves, knowing they would commit such a heinous act?
  • Temptation comes to all of us,whether or not we succumb depends on our ability to recognize its disguise,sometimes it arrives in a form of an old flame,flichering back to lift,or a new friend who could end up being so much more,or a young child who wakens feelings we didn't know we had.And so we give in to temptation all the while knowing come moring,we'll have to suffer the consequences.
  • Some large, some small, all never knowingly undersold. Times, Sunday Times
  • And not knowing where the end point is was making military people worried.
  • You don't spend 18 years listening to yarns about footballers without knowing when to take a bung with good grace. Times, Sunday Times
  • The label had come off, so there was no way of knowing what was on the disk.
  • I did indeed feel a certain admiration but it was mixed with revulsion that I was now implicated in blackmail just by knowing about it.
  • The araguato at the "tail-end" of the bridge, not knowing what had happened, and thinking all was right for swinging himself across, slipped his tail from the branch just at the very same instant that the wounded one let go, and the whole chain fell "souse" into the water! The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon
  • We have no other way of knowing how many people come into town to shop other than these footfall figures.
  • Reporters have no of knowing based on the calculation of reserves.
  • Johnson notes that this snake could be misidentified as the Western cottonmouth, but knowing to look for that chainlike dark pattern on the back will help in identification. SeMissourian.com Headlines
  • Thus we can have common-sense knowledge while not knowing that we are not having the delusive experience of a brain-in-a-vat.
  • Sometimes I tear at my hair and gnash my teeth over producing the content, but knowing that people like you appreciate my hard work goes a long way. Daily Life in the British Parliament: The Political Hostess | Edwardian Promenade
  • He informed Prime Minister Brown that the Chinese government is aware of the three points that the Chinese Prime Minister had reportedly raised with him and that he would be able to get back to him after knowing the outcome of the 7th round of Sino-Tibetan talk to take place in the second week of June. British Prime Minister, Chinese Journalists Meet H.H. the Dalai Lam
  • The story begins with dysfunctional grandparents and extends itself to Mitchell's life in an unbroken line that will make students of social services work nod knowingly.
  • However, knowingly or not, the Brazilian people still refer to the old process - the "wiretap" - as it still exists. Home
  • The paradoxical tragedy of knowing this, condemns him to being given to the terrorists by his stepfather, assuring his silence this way.
  • Without even knowing what the guard held in his hand, all the galoots who had pushed their way forward exclaimed, ‘It's for the Kid, I saw him throw it to the Kid.’
  • It turns out that Keller knowingly allowed some cracked cylinder heads to ship and twenty-one P-40s they were installed in crashed because of it. Lance Mannion:
  • Knowing and wearing the correct colours is supposed to make us look healthier, younger and boost our confidence. Times, Sunday Times
  • Chrom, that is, the bandy-legged smith — fought well, and contributed greatly to the fate of the battle, without knowing which side he fought on; — so, “To fight for your own hand, like Henry Rob Roy
  • Will try this 270 when t arrives and give a report to anyone interested in knowing from a commom man, not a con-artist-writer. Return of the Model 70
  • I hear that the night that Charles sat up at White's, which was that preceding the night of Lady Holland's death, he planned out a kind of itinerant trade, which was going from horse race to horse race, and so, by knowing the value and speed of all the horses in England, to acquire a certain fortune. George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life
  • The repetition, and eventually the matching of the sounds of the letters to their corresponding picture will get your youngsters recognizing letters and knowing their phonetical sounds in no time! A Learning Activity That Can Be Used For A One Year, Two Year And Four Year Old Child For Literacy Skills? « Literacy Skills « Literacy Help « Literacy News
  • In essence his submission was that those words were to be construed as being confined to torts and therefore did not include the pleaded acts of knowing assistance.
  • A piece of hair, a nail clipping, or a swab from a glass of beer could all be used to provide information without the person concerned ever knowing.
  • It was the uncertainty that was so infuriating, not knowing where she was.
  • I can feel depressed and sad enough just knowing about tragedy in a generalized sense.
  • He smiles in a knowing, fatherly way. Times, Sunday Times
  • They drove home in silence, neither really knowing what to say to the other and Jinx not bothering to break the silence.
  • Participating in a procession and knowingly failing to comply with a condition imposed, or inciting another to do so. 4.
  • The other Indians were displeased at the conduct of the Natchez, imagining they had forwarded the term agreed on, in order to make them ridiculous, and proposed to take vengeance the first opportunity, not knowing the true cause of the precipitation of the Natchez. History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing
  • Scholars have been aware for a long time of a certain “disconnect” between the version of God preached by Judaism and Christianity—an all-knowing, omnipresent, and all-powerful deity—and the way in which God is depicted in, especially, some of the earliest parts of the Hebrew Bible. In the Valley of the Shadow
  • 17 But he, knowing their thoughts, said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and a house _divided_ against a house falleth. The Gospel of Luke, An Exposition
  • It's a genre in which sweeping narratives somehow manage to unspool through tiny but highly specific movements like a sharply bowed finger or a knowing lift of the brow. Priyadarsini Govind and Nrityagram Dance Ensemble offer intense Indian dance
  • But just knowing her little brother was inside was enough to make her blood heat to a simmer.
  • A majority of so called agnostics and atheists in Europe are cultural conservative Christians without even knowing it. Ben Stevens: Is Anders Breivik A European Fundamentalist?
  • Abdullah would roll his eyes, look at me, and then burst out laughing, knowing that Grandmaman would give him a backshish at the end of the day for all his pains. Apricots on the Nile
  • Knowing that his kind of work is often autobiographical, one can't help but wonder if his family and friends recognise themselves in his characters. Times, Sunday Times
  • Temptation comes to all of us,whether or not we succumb depends on our ability to recognize its disguise,sometimes it arrives in a form of an old flame,flichering back to lift,or a new friend who could end up being so much more,or a young child who wakens feelings we didn't know we had.And so we give in to temptation all the while knowing come moring,we'll have to suffer the consequences.
  • '' Knowing we can beat the good teams and defending our turf is a good feeling. '' USATODAY.com - Scores
  • Knowingly or not, these critics are mangling the facts to prove a debatable point and in the process damaging their own cause.
  • Success often depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
  • Being able to provide yourself with your own work relies less on having a rich uncle to back you than on knowing yourself well. Life Without Work
  • Then the cup went round and they drank late into the night, and when they had drunk the voidee cup, Osberne led the newcomer to the guest-chamber, and kissed him with good-night, but made no show of knowing who he was. The Sundering Flood
  • Li Yuan rose, knowing it was important, letting Master Nan wrap the cloak about his nakedness.
  • The latter symbolizes that egoistic force of maya (the everyday world) which deludes individuals and keeps them from knowing their innate nature as god.
  • I think I may be a little self absorbed (T hears guffaws of knowing laughter from various corners of the globe).
  • Knowing in advance how it works lets you avoid the crush of departing passengers settling last-minute accounts.
  • But he never told the others, knowing it would get a big horselaugh. Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
  • I have a hard time with it, knowing that if my brother ever found out I was, you know, * festive*, he'd likely think I was too perverted to be near his kids and grandkids, even though I'm chaste and have been even back when I was a neopagan and didn't believe chastity was mandated or even all that great. Keeping the Riff-Raff Out of Heaven
  • Whereat nurse smiled demurely, knowing that that was the last thing to be afraid of in connexion with her child. A Little Bush Maid
  • The face-off between the management and employees of the company began when a new worker unknowingly opened a window in an area where a steam machine is used to dry finished textile materials.
  • Without any reference to the greater or less force of medical theories as to the efficacy of cinchona bark, I now only take an experienced and practical view, well knowing that the sufferings of many millions of poor and rich natives, especially in the jungle districts, are yearly very great, and the mortality quite enormous from remittent and intermittent fevers, by far the greater part of which would be immensely relieved, or wholly cured, by the free use of cinchona bark. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
  • Jewbeard, knowing that the color is called celeste green is indeed an indication of whether one is a real cyclist or a poser, but this guy thinks that a 55cm. fits a six footer, so we can probably securely place him in the poser category. Worst of NYC Craigslist Bike Ads: Spikes and Troughs
  • Steve Finnan may never quite have received the accolades his solid, dependable performances deserved, but among knowing Liverpool fans there is no shortage of appreciation.
  • Knowing her father's opposition to the young man, Nina decided to run away with him.
  • Meanwhile, living in Cambridge and knowing a very large number of Unitarian Universalists and various lefty folks, I can attest that not every liberal is "mannered," "self-critical," or "pensive. Philocrites: Beware 'Old Testament' comparisons.
  • It's a fine hairline, knowing the difference. Times, Sunday Times
  • As an artist, he has knowingly signed forged drawings and disavows responsibility for his sometimes salacious subject matter.
  • Although some questions have yet to be answered, enough groundwork is laid out to postpone any frustration that comes with not knowing. REVIEW: Godkiller: Walk Among Us (Episode #2) directed by Matt Pizzolo
  • I can rest easy knowing that she's safely home.
  • An email follows asking you to attend, smugly knowing that you have no conflicting commitments.
  • On stage, he pulls knowing faces, as if his rise from boy-band ignominy to rock superstar is a joke in which audiences are complicit.
  • Parents let their offspring roam the streets quite happily, not knowing what they are up to.
  • Knowing that Wall Street execs are doing their "darndest" to make money shines a whole new light on things, doesn't it? Adam Green: NBC Has An Erin Burnett Problem
  • Knowing that, stand back and let the battles commence. Times, Sunday Times
  • Knowing that he is not authorized by the laws of this state to do so, he performs a marriage ceremony or presumes to solemnize a marriage.
  • Palmistry, numerology, naadi jyotisham and the Western and Eastern star signs are some of the better-known methods of knowing about one's future and sometimes, the past.
  • It is rather penurious reasoning too, knowing what we know about the geo-strategic priorities of the United States at this conjuncture.
  • I took my folio with me, and I left two hundred pounds behind in debts I had incurred knowing I would never pay them. THE PRESIDENT'S CHILD

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