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.
has knit
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present perfectof knit (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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That’s largely thanks to the actual campaign that Pappas has knit together—one that has closed the initial gap he faced and looks solid going into November.
From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2026
Always taking a moderate-to-liberal position, Javits has knit together a far-flung constituency of largely Jewish voters in New York City and upstate conservatives who have found him safe on economic issues.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the winter, he wears a sweater one of us has knit, and in the summer, a loose undyed linen shirt.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
That lovely girl gave me a necktie and a pair of gloves that she has knit with her own hands.
From A Man for the Ages A Story of the Builders of Democracy by John Wolcott Adams
Invidious grave!—how dost thou rend in sunder Whom love has knit, and sympathy made one!
From The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan
