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Example sentences for "knew something"

  • I would say it would be fair to think that somebody shot me on account of they thought I knew something or had some connection with Lee Oswald.

  • Yes, very much, very much, because I knew something of the reputation of this group.

  • The desk, or the city desk, which consists of the city editor and the assistant city editor or the rewrite staff--somewhere they got a tip that there was a fellow in Irving who had mounted the sight or knew something about it.

  • He knew something of Banks, he knew more of McClellan, and the bearing of the Valley on the defence of Washington had long been uppermost in his thoughts.

  • He knew something of his opponent, and anticipating that he would be eager to attack, had ordered the greater part of his division to remain concealed.

  • I thought we had had enough of this particular matter, and that I should like to hear what the Master had to say about the three professions he knew something about, each compared with the others.

  • A library of a few thousand volumes ought always to have some books in it which the owner almost never opens, yet with whose backs he is so well acquainted that he feels as if he knew something of their contents.

  • However that may be, he knew something of importance.

  • Therefore he knew something of what took place in the study, in which Miss Manning was involved.

  • When Ruth had been adjudged guilty, I determined to get rid of Lee, since his actions told me plainly he knew something of Cora's visit.

  • About Beatrice Father Robertson felt that he knew something he dared not know.

  • He looked at her and hesitated to acknowledge a feeling at which he knew something in her would smile; then he thought of Rosamund and of Little Cloisters and spoke out the truth.

  • In the dark about all this, he did not believe there was such necessity for extreme haste; though he knew something was on foot against the Custos which would not allow of much loss of time.

  • He knew something of the white denizens of Mount Welcome--more, perhaps, of those with a coloured skin.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "knew something" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    above the; fresh troops; high dudgeon; inch stroke; knew every; knew full; knew her; knew him; knew himself; knew must; knew that; knew the; knew their; knew then; knew very; knew what; knew where; mental state; naval strength; noble lord; she added; single game; then known; will seek; word and; write poetry