knackery
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of knackery
Example Sentences
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Atoms will drift apart and get rearranged in the great knackery of the universe.
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Something was being rendered out of my heart in the knackery of this night.
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Mr. Nossik reentered the great knackery of the universe.
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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.
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The power plant was easily replaced, although nobody knows for certain how many irreplaceable people had been swallowed up in William Mulholland’s churning liquid knackery.
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