have knuckled
- present perfect of knuckle.
Example Sentences
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Then the chances are you will be in the thick of it, Somerton, for by August there will either be war, or old Kruger will have knuckled under.
From With Rifle and Bayonet A Story of the Boer War by Brereton, F. S. (Frederick Sadleir)
I never thought Mr. Hume would have knuckled down so easily.
From In Search of the Okapi A Story of Adventure in Central Africa by Glanville, Ernest
But I reckon I’d better have knuckled under.”
From Brand Blotters by Rowe, Clarence H. (Clarence Herbert)
If my love was strong and fine I ought never to have knuckled under.
From We Three by Hutt, Henry
Hang me, but I must have a strong touch of the coward in me or I would not have knuckled as I did to the jade.
From Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by Carleton, William
