Example Sentences

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Yet, when faced with adversity, Adams never knuckled up for any fights on principle, choosing only to take the easiest and most comfortable way out.

From Slate • Sep. 29, 2025

However the pair simply knuckled down and went back to work, with gigs and releasing music.

From BBC • May 3, 2025

Asked if it had knuckled on Outman, Marte was sympathetic.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 8, 2023

When it came, he read the puck and deflected it with the shaft of his stick, then watched as it knuckled past Shesterkin to make it 1-0 at 4:25.

From Washington Post • Feb. 25, 2023

Possibly she wants to be a painter, and thinks I have compromised my principles, knuckled under to success.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood