Example Sentences

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Back when “swag” was merely “style,” Downey acquired a comically expensive ascot collection to seemingly prove Oscar Wilde’s adage that “a well-knotted cravat is the first serious step in a man’s life.”

From Washington Post

By adding to those companies Montana Power, American Power & Light has a well-knotted system tying the northwest communities snugly together.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was as impossible to open the doors as it was to shut them, for which reason they were permanently secured by well-knotted ropes.

From Hungarian Sketches in Peace and War Constable's Miscellany of Foreign Literature, vol. 1 by Jókai, Mór

There is no controverting a critic who has twenty stout rowers, and twenty well-knotted rope-ends.

From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Landor, Walter Savage

Half an hour's hard work saw the heap of clothing converted into a stout, well-knotted rope.

From Jack Haydon's Quest by Jellicoe, John