Example Sentences

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"Knots pass through quickly, just like a quick bump, whereas plectonemes linger and create extended signals. This offers a path to richer, more nuanced readouts of DNA organization, genomic integrity, and possibly damage."

From Science Daily • Feb. 9, 2026

Jay Begum sells handmade wooden decorations and gifts through her small London-based business Knots of Pine.

From BBC • Aug. 29, 2025

Chinese American fiber artist and night market vendor Genna Fong of Exquisite Knots said her crochet work of bamboo plants and fortune cookies are adored at the market in the CID.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 23, 2023

Others, such as Cerulean Warblers and Red Knots, begin their prebreeding migratory journeys in the Southern Hemisphere, where days are getting shorter, not longer, and then cross the equator to reach North America.

From Scientific American • Apr. 20, 2023

Knots as thick as the wild onions along the river.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff