Example Sentences

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Jones, 25, had knocked out Venus Williams in the first round despite feeling under the weather but struggled against Pegula.

From BBC • Mar. 22, 2026

He told me ICE had knocked over the police tape during one of their advances, and no police or first responders remained.

From Slate • Jan. 25, 2026

Around the same time, the trading platform Robinhood also said the AWS outage had knocked it offline.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 21, 2025

Martin had "knocked it out of the park" in his address to the club's new owners.

From BBC • Oct. 5, 2025

The Americas were filled with an enthusiastically diverse assortment of peoples who had knocked about the continents for millennia.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann