How to use knuckle in a sentence

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• Just rap your knuckles on the wall when you're ready to go.From the entry rap someone's knuckles
• If the sales department doesn't get organized soon, the CEO is going to rap their knuckles.From the entry rap someone's knuckles
• I jammed the top knuckle of my ring finger.From the entry jam
• You should knuckle down and do your homework!From the entry knuckle down
• My skinned knuckles hurt until the scrape healed.From the entry skinned
• Jacob always carried a set of brass knuckles, just in case he ever got caught up in a bar fight.From the entry brass knuckles
• As soon as she heard that her father had died, she went into a rage and beat the wall with her fists until her knuckles bled.From the entry beat
• With the knuckles of my right hand I struck him in his brachial plexus.2022, Percival Everett, Dr. No, Influx Press (2023), page 142. From the entry brachial plexus
• He'd have no problem knocking out John Martorano with one bare knuckled blow.2012, William M. Connolly, Character Assassins: Carr, Dershowitz, Mudd:Who’ll Live In Infamy?, →ISBN. From the entry bare knuckled
• 'Cestus': This includes all sorts of fist wrappings and brass knuckle weapon types.2011, James Edward Raggi, IV, Lamentations of the Flame Princess: Weird Fantasy Role-Playing (Grindhouse Edition): Rules Book, →ISBN, page…. From the entry cestus
• I look normaller than you.” I hold up a hand and rub my knuckles.2011, Jonathan Friesen, chapter 6, in The Last Martin, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zonderkidz, →ISBN, page 65. From the entry normaller
• I fought you hard as a bare knuckled boxer in open yard.2009, Susan, Susan, →ISBN. From the entry bare knuckled
• I crave the softness of human touch, rather than the bone-crushing feel of bare knuckle fighting.2008, Peter Hall, Do You Want to Go to Jail Today?, →ISBN, page 142. From the entry bare knuckle
• The kind of time that droops over your knuckles and impedes your fingers' function.2007, Katherine Baccaro, Precipice: A Novel of Lust and Lies. From the entry boresome
• This was a rub on the head with a knuckle from his finger.2007, James Gerdeman, Jimmy, Lulu.com, →ISBN. From the entry nuggy
• Unless Claire really struck some nerve besides the ones running through Monica's knuckles.2006, Rachel Caine, Glass Houses (The Morganville Vampires; I), New York, N.Y.: NAL Jam, New American Library, →ISBN, page 59. From the entry smackdown
• She knocked against the taut drum of her stomach with her knuckles.1995, Anne Peters, Along Comes Baby (page 84). From the entry overpregnant
• Four times he jumped the rattler, his knuckles bleeding from punching walls.1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 269. From the entry jump the rattler
• "Two for flinching!" She held out her wrist, and he flicked it twice with his knuckles.1974, Jeannie Sakol, New Year's Eve: A Novel, page 304. From the entry two for flinching
• So near the knuckle, I wonder they got past the censor.1972, Nikolái Vasílievich Gógol, Diary of a Madman and Other Stories. From the entry near the knuckle
• Smoked picnics (calas) are pork shoulders with the butt portion removed just beyond the knuckle bone.1940, War Department Technical Manual, page 53. From the entry picnic
• His knuckles are tattooed, his hands the oaken tools of the boxer he still is, now as a coach.2025 December 21, Mark Sappenfield, “English voters scatter from the center, strengthening extremes”, in The Christian Science Monitor. From the entry oaken
• “I frankly couldn't give a cat's knuckle about Gizmo.2021 September 2, Paul Simms, “The Prisoner” (1:11 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 3, episode 1, spoken by Laszlo…. From the entry pip
• Across the knuckles there are faint, old, keloidal scars.2020, N. K. Jemisin, The City We Became, Orbit, page 232. From the entry keloidal
• Cigar clenched between his knuckles, Johnnie Whiteside patted Gordon's knee.2012, Jessica Stirling, The Asking Price. From the entry kippered
• With a resolve to get his son away from these monsters, Isaac knuckled up and mean-mugged his opponent.2012, Vanessa Miller, Latter Rain. From the entry mean-mug
• This raises a third and final question: How should basic research be saved in a world of bare knuckle competition?2012, Christian Schierenbeck, Fixing Higher Education, →ISBN. From the entry bare knuckle
• Tony stumbled a little and when he found his balance, he knuckled up and sent a jab toward Will's neck.2012, Pink Maxwell, A Scorpion's Sting, page 209. From the entry knuckle up
• The rest of the drive home I white knuckled it.2010, Tanya Ebert, Mystical Puzzle, page 24. From the entry white-knuckle
• Bush in full military flight suit, with his ejector harness giving him the worst moose knuckle in presidential history.2005, Benjamin Tripp, Square in the Nuts, →ISBN, page 92. From the entry moose knuckle
• Knuckles: The Egg Carrier is nothing compared to this!2003, Sonic Team USA, Sonic Heroes, Sega, GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox, level/area: Final Fortress. From the entry nothing
• Clearly the "wet noodle" handshake will not conquer the world and the "knuckle grinder" will not win friends.2003, Tiffany Field, Touch, →ISBN, page 22. From the entry wet noodle
• Instead you pummel me, your knuckles knocking against my ribs.2001, Wendy Rawlings, Come Back Irish, page 92. From the entry unwandered
• In some types of hilt one quillon was curved towards the pommel, serving as a guard for the knuckles.1997, Dale Anthony Girard, “The Sword and the Stage: An Introduction to the Theatrical Rapier”, in Actors on Guard: A Practical Guide for…. From the entry quillon
• OKKIE. (Raises his fist, kissing the knuckles menacingly—follows her to bottom of steps.) How would you like a knuckle sandwich?1957, Jerome Chodorov, Joseph [Albert] Fields, Anniversary Waltz: Comedy in Three Acts, rev. edition, New York, N.Y.: Dramatists Play…. From the entry knuckle sandwich
• He dug back in, dragging his knuckles across the keys, and then he held out both arms straight, like a condor in midglide.2009 September 25, Nate Chinen, “It Feels Like Home: The Sounds of Coltrane”, in New York Times. From the entry midglide

Meaning of knuckle

1. noun Any of the joints between the bones of the fingers.
2. noun A mechanical joint.
3. noun The curved part of the cushion at the entrance to the pockets on a cue sports table.

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Questions about knuckle in a sentence

How do you use knuckle in a sentence?

Knuckle is used as a noun and verb. For example: “He knuckled the sleep from his eyes.”

What is a short sentence with knuckle?

“Only then I knuckled him.”

What does knuckle mean?

Knuckle means any of the joints between the bones of the fingers.