knackery
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of knackery
Example Sentences
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“This canyon is nothing but a knackery, and now it is pulling us apart too. It never shuts down, does it?”
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
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
Mr. Nossik reentered the great knackery of the universe.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
Atoms will be scattered, and the knackery never shuts down.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
Rumors spread like a diaspora of atoms in the knackery of the universe, always getting rendered into something else and something else.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
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