knackery
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of knackery
Example Sentences
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They appear as knackery trucks that carry dead horses, as collapsing dams, and maybe as beautiful girls with long dancer legs who drift silently through the dust of a California desert morning.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
We dragged our sleeping bags out from the tent so we could lie on our backs and watch the atoms being freed in the knackery above us until we fell asleep.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
The Leonid meteor shower is coming soon, as the knackery renders comet Tempel-Tuttle into something else, and something else again.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
Something was being rendered out of my heart in the knackery of this night.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
If I had lain there for a few million miles more than I did, the knackery of the ant nest would have disassembled Finn Easton and turned him into all sorts of useful ant products.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
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