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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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
The time of distress and disaster has knit together the Empire in a wondrous unity of brotherhood.
From The Discipline of War Nine Addresses on the Lessons of the War in Connection with Lent by John Hasloch Potter
The young men of today are the heirs of all the unifying influences by which the genius of man has knit this great people into one splendid family.
From Proceedings of the Second National Conservation Congress at Saint Paul, September 5-8, 1910 by United States. National Conservation Congress
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
