Example Sentences

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Pattinson has incredible physical control over both 17’s slack-jawed, knock-kneed cartoon and his identical opposite.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2025

He was instrumental, too, in creating the knock-kneed gait of Ms. Burnett’s bubbleheaded secretary character, Mrs. Wiggins.

From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2018

The tower would appear to float one floor above the pavement, which is to say it would become knock-kneed and top-heavy.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2017

At the start, in a black suit, he looks like a knock-kneed, buttoned-up bureaucrat, arms tight by his side, fingers twitching, voice creakily restrained.

From The Guardian • Mar. 31, 2013

The stot they had given him was a wretched thing, knock-kneed and half-starved; he could never hope to outdistance the fine horses Lord Ramsay and his hunters would be riding.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin