knit
verb (used with object)
to make (a garment, fabric, etc.) by interlocking loops of one or more yarns either by hand with knitting needles or by machine.
had knitted
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past perfectof knit.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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She grew up in poverty and in her 1971 hit Coat of Many Colours describes how she would wear rags which her "mama" had knitted together to school.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
At first, the question puzzled Ms. Nović, until she realized that, despite their differences, the four of them had knitted themselves so tightly together that they had also created a single—and singular—family unit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
He didn’t seem to have enough warm clothes, and, on the first day of trial, Longuevan said, Jubal showed up in a makeshift hat that other inmates had knitted out of a sock.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2024
Police in the city of Oryol, southwest of Moscow, were called in after a pensioner found the socks she had knitted for soldiers on sale at the local market.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 19, 2022
The sweaters she had knitted in yellow, pink, bright orange—all the colors I hated—I put those in moth-proof boxes.
From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
