knowed
Americanverb
Example Sentences
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So when we was getting to the end of our dinner and the table started thumping, I guessed I knowed what was what, and I didn’t pay it no nevermind.
From The Verge • Mar. 1, 2018
When Charlie’s father dies, the boy becomes easy prey for Captain Buck, the overseer of a plantation with a “rep-a-tation knowed even beyond Richland District.”
From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2018
Joe said he was well behaved: “Russell probably done a lot of things that should have got him in trouble, but he was smarter than I was, so I never knowed about them.”
From New York Times • Aug. 14, 2013
Well, if we'd knowed that the place already had tenants, let alone that they was decent folks, we might've called it off.
From Nature • Feb. 27, 2013
I hoped Pa was gonna tell me what this meant later, but I knowed by the way he’d done everything quicklike that I shouldn’t say nothing more ’bout it for now.
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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