Example Sentences

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"I didn't feel an immediate physical threat. No one was knocking on my door, I wasn't jailed or tortured."

From Barron's • Mar. 5, 2026

“But yeah, I was knocking down shots and kind of just getting my rhythm and kept shooting. So when they’re falling, they’re falling.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 2025

But the tradeoff was knocking down the cancer to the point it’s undetectable.

From Salon • May 21, 2025

By the time the call was over PC George Van Der Wart was knocking on the door of the Sharif family home in Woking.

From BBC • Dec. 11, 2024

Somebody was knocking on the door and I yelled for them to come on in because I hadn’t locked it.

From "Slam!" by Walter Dean Myers