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Example sentences for "one knew"

  • If I lingered in the porch to watch a certain tall figure disappear into the darkness, no one knew it, for the stars tell no tales.

  • I used to be with Hamilton every evening; and when Gladys was very ill they sent for me, because they said no one knew how to soothe her so well.

  • The men called him Jack Poynter, and said he was a gentleman, but no one knew where he lived.

  • No one knew what to do, no one had the sense to do anything, though there were stacks of wheat, hay, barns, and piles of faggots standing all round.

  • The cry of that mysterious bird was heard every spring, but no one knew what it was like or where it lived.

  • It would not, and no one knew it better than he did.

  • What had become of the twelfth no one knew.

  • It will be as well to observe here, that within a week from this time all the locusts had disappeared, no one knew how, only a few stragglers remained.

  • There was a great turmoil in the village: a girl had been abused--no one knew by whom, whether by the villagers themselves or the people who had come from Moscow for flour; the old woman began to accuse the Committee men.

  • No one saw, no one knew of the peasant's compassion.

  • Chase was presented to Drusilla Browne, who appeared suddenly upon the scene, coming from no one knew where.

  • Here the cavern branched off in three or four directions, like the tentacles of a monster devilfish, the narrow passages leading no one knew whither in that tomb-like mountain.

  • If he grew leaner and more morose, no one knew that it was due to the passing of a woman.

  • Yet when they came no one knew them, because of the great change in their appearance and their fine attire, the like of which had never been seen by man in those days.

  • No one knew for a long time where they went or what they did.

  • Now it was said that far away up in the land where none had ever been there was on this very stream another Indian village; but what manner of men dwelt therein no one knew.

  • He had gone out by the canal gate half an hour before, with a bundle of mathematical papers under his arm, no one knew whither.

  • Send him up," said Jimmy, wondering who it might be, since he was sure that no one knew of his presence in the city.

  • That day he ate no lunch, but he had discovered a place where an abundance might be had for twenty-five cents if one knew how to order and ordered judiciously.

  • She did not know that he had entered Compton's office and had been first to find his dead body; in fact, no one knew that.

  • But what he secretly meditated no one knew, no one had read in his heart.

  • Well, then--what if one knew how to smooth this unbeaten path, for the easier entrance of death into the citadel of life?

  • She had been carried off, it was said, at midnight, no one knew whither, and no eye had beheld her since.

  • There was a time when I knew nothing, when no one knew me: accordingly, it is usual to say, I was not.

  • Whether they saw it in the reflections on the running water, or whether the maze of shadow and sunshine in the wooded banks produced it, no one knew exactly.

  • How long they watched it no one knew, and no one cared to know: it might have been a moment, it may have been a year or two; so utterly had hurry vanished out of life it seemed to them they stood and watched for ever.

  • What they had been doing each one knew assuredly, even if no one mentioned it.

  • Then, how it happened no one knew exactly.

  • No one knew of his birth save the companions in exile of the Great Emperor.

  • The men were mystified, but wine and rhetoric had fired them, and they cheered him--no one knew why.

  • She didn't know what to do, and you could see plainly that no one knew what to do with her, so they united in sending me to show her the place.

  • Mother had some window blinds that Winfield had brought her from New York in the spring, and she had laid them away; no one knew why, then.

  • If she ever worked a stroke, no one knew it.

  • I have never met the woman; I know the man very slightly; he has been here on business once or twice, but the girl seems as if she would be nice, if one knew her.

  • Of course they looked at Laddie, and no one knew what he meant, so all the women and a few of the men asked him.

  • He heard the men talking on deck, and aware that no one knew that he was on board, he rose from his bed, and opened one of the sliding sashes of the skylight, that he might overhear the conversation.

  • The corporal swore that he was not in the cabin, and that Mr Vanslyperken had arranged for his going on shore to look for him, when all of a sudden the dog made his appearance, no one knew how.

  • On his arrival, he was informed that a messenger had been sent for him, but no one knew where to find him, and that he must be at the admiral's early the next morning, and have all ready for immediate sailing.

  • No one knew what to do, for no one knew well the state of Henderson's affairs.

  • No one knew him, and the poor fellow had not a friend to bid him good-bye.

  • I was certain that no one knew that it had been missent.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "one knew" 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:
    best illustrated; highly educated; myself that; one after the other; one another; one case; one cup sweet milk; one foot; one great; one hundred and twenty; one hundred thousand francs; one instance; one knows; one large octavo volume; one man; one moment; one ounce; one person; one sees; one time; one who; one whom; one with; preserve order; proceeding from; you about