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How to use knowing in a sentence

40 example sentences · adjective, preposition, noun

Knowing means possessing knowledge or understanding; knowledgeable, intelligent. Example: “Knowing you, you would try not to be late for school.”

Examples of knowing by meaning

adjectiveShrewd or showing clever awareness; discerning.

  • a knowing rascal

adjectiveSuggestive of private knowledge or understanding.

  • Jon and Tyrion greet each other with the words that have been used against them as weapons, sharing a knowing smile.2017 July 30, Ali Barthwell, “Ice and fire finally meet in a front-loaded episode of Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club
  • There are plenty of callbacks to the original to delight young fans (including a catchy new song from Shakira’s Gazelle) and plenty of knowing jokes for the adults in the audience.2025 November 25, Caroline Siede, “Zootopia 2 is a stagnant sequel with one stellar subplot”, in AV Club

prepositionGiven my knowledge about someone or something.

  • Knowing you, you would try not to be late for school.

nounThe act or condition of having knowledge.

  • Sensations then, are not perceivings, observings or findings; they are not detectings, scannings or inspectings; they are not apprehendings, cognisings, intuitings or knowings.2009, Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind (60th Anniversary Edition, 1949, page 194)

More sentences with knowing

  • I took a long look at the house, knowing it was for the last time.From the entry long
  • She had no way of knowing, nor did we, that he’d done it.From the entry nor
  • Looking at me with a knowing glare, she blushed her discomfort with the situation.From the entry blush
  • It would be folly to walk all that way, knowing the shops are probably shut by now.From the entry folly
  • Knowing that I had inadvertently aided a killer, left me with a bad taste in my mouth.From the entry bad taste in one's mouth
  • Mary sighed, knowing her ideals were far too romantic to work in reality.From the entry romantic
  • You can breathe easy knowing that your savings account is insured against loss.From the entry breathe easy
  • Knowing the real reasons for his actions enabled her to view them in a better light.From the entry better light
  • Not knowing of established definitions would be grounds for selecting or devising a working definition.From the entry working definition
  • Well, nice knowing you, but I gotta head home. Take care of yourself out there.From the entry nice knowing you
  • They give the appearance of knowing what they're doing. It's this appearance that lets them get away with so much.From the entry this
  • Not knowing any better, I went ahead.From the entry not
  • A holster can help you carry in confidence, knowing that your weapon is secure and close at hand.From the entry carry
  • Knowing obscure 19th-century slang is peak nerd.From the entry peak
  • A person can sometimes wake up knowing the solution to a problem that their subconscious has been working on.From the entry subconscious
  • Knowing the auditors were coming in just a week, we chose to pencil whip the quarterly inventory forms for the last year.From the entry pencil whip
  • Part of being a competent engineer is knowing how to trade off appropriately among mutually exclusive options, depending on the specified requirements for each design.From the entry trade off
  • The manager hesitated to open the doors to the thronging holiday crowds, knowing that a feeding frenzy would soon ensue near the display of coveted toys.From the entry feeding frenzy
  • One of life's most useful skills is knowing when to cut your losses.2026 March 14, “Pinterest might want to put a potential sale on its mood board”, in FT Weekend (Lex section), London: The Financial Times…. From the entry cut one's losses
  • “I’ve took it knowing full well that it’s going to end up bringing more work in.2024 June 7, Donagh Corby, “‘World’s Strongest Man’ Eddie Hall weighs in over 62lb heavier than both opponents put together for 2v1 MMA…. From the entry Blackburn
  • Now, she said, she sometimes struggles with knowing what she wants.2024 February 3, Marisa Charpentier, “'Boysober' Is Celibacy With a Rebrand”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times…. From the entry boysober
  • Someone's forgotten something, that's all.” She wanted to get rid of Jane without knowing exactly.2022 August 1, J. Jefferson Farjeon, Back to Victoria, DigiCat. From the entry hoarse
  • Fellow students mocked him on his first day for knowing only Ucwalmicwts, a dialect of St̓át̓imcets.2021 June 11, Rhianna Schmunk, “Catching tears”, in CBC News. From the entry St̓át̓imcets
  • Knowing that I have no chance with them makes me really sad.2020, anonymous, quoted in Kirsti Sippel, "'Tuhoutukoot naiset maailmani mukana': Incel paineen varaventtiilinä, ideologiana ja…. From the entry suifuel
  • People always order a "skinny" margarita without knowing exactly what that means for the ingredients.2019, Fancy AF Cocktails. From the entry skinny
  • Angela: I swear, you are the most boughetto person I have ever had the blessing of knowing!2019, M. M. Dolcé, Tiffany "Joy" Dingle, Baggage Claim: A Life Story (page 152). From the entry boughetto
  • Politicians—good ones, at least—make their bones by knowing which way the wind is blowing.2018 January 18, Eric Bradner, Chris Cillizza, “Republicans are running in 2018. Running from Trump”, in CNN.com, retrieved 04 Sep 2018. From the entry make one's bones
  • Granted, Tyrese put himself out there by even posting the video, knowing the internet has no chill.2017 November 5, Tanay Hudson, “Tyrese’s Meltdown Is Not A Laughing Matter”, in Madame Noire. From the entry chill
  • Knowing Lucy, she'll have salad sandwiches packed for the picnic tea."2017, Annie Seaton, Her Outback Surprise, →ISBN. From the entry battered sav
  • The king, knowing that he had an alternative administration in waiting, accepted the first minister's wish.2016, Peter Ackroyd, Revolution, Pan Macmillan, published 2017, page 339. From the entry first minister
  • I take a deep breath because his knowing Cora Blue seems to safen things up a little.2016, Kathryn Stockett, The Help, page 189. From the entry safen
  • Jenny's pulse took a flutter at the word 'newspaper' now knowing that she was guilty.2016 -, Laurie Pegrum, Looking at Clouds, page 218. From the entry take a flutter
  • She agreed, although without knowing exactly what she was agreeing to.2016 August 1, Maria Katsonis, Lee Kofman, Rebellious Daughters, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN. From the entry sexpo
  • Knowing what a foodie Mary was, I inquired about the Russian food.2015, Frank G Schafer, “The Garden of Eden”, in Sammy: Gaia Lives, →ISBN, page 221. From the entry kutia
  • Even with the most knowing interpreter, his hyperclever, verbose musings remain cryptic.2015 August 2, Stephen Holden, “Review: Karen Oberlin’s ‘His Aim Is True,’ a Tribute to Elvis Costello”, in New York Times. From the entry hyperclever

Meaning of knowing

  1. adjective Possessing knowledge or understanding; knowledgeable, intelligent.
  2. adjective Deliberate, wilful.
  3. adjective Shrewd or showing clever awareness; discerning.

Full definition of knowing

Questions about knowing in a sentence

How do you use knowing in a sentence?
Knowing is used as an adjective, preposition and noun. For example: “Knowing you, you would try not to be late for school.”
What is a short sentence with knowing?
“a knowing rascal”
What does knowing mean?
Knowing means possessing knowledge or understanding; knowledgeable, intelligent.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: knowing (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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