Example Sentences

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The project holder told Thornburg his wife had been learning to knit and had been knitting through medical treatments until she no longer could.

From Washington Post • Feb. 8, 2023

On Sunday, writer Josie George shared a photo on Twitter of a scarf she had been knitting, with a daily row for the temperature and weather in her town.

From Slate • Feb. 8, 2020

In the back of the room sat Yi Deng, a twenty-five-year-old Housing Works volunteer, who had been knitting a red scarf since the reading began.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 17, 2014

One end of it was attached to some needles and a half-finished sock she had been knitting for me.

From "The Witches" by Roald Dahl

A small round table was cleared of the Czaritza’s work-basket—she had been knitting a soldier’s comforter—and we took our seats around it.

From The International Spy Being the Secret History of the Russo-Japanese War by Upward, Allen