1
: the action or method of one that knits
2
: work done or being done by one that knits
Examples of knitting in a Sentence
She keeps her knitting in the closet.
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But when Wilmet finally secures an invitation to Piers’s flat, she is received by Keith, a young man who models sweaters for knitting catalogues and has gone to great effort to lay out a tea worthy of his lover’s upper-class female friend.
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Literary Hub, 17 Nov. 2025
The Brit List script, which treads the line between black comedy and drama, is set in the early 20th Century Hungary where a village knitting club takes it upon themselves to poison their abusive husbands with arsenic.
—Diana Lodderhose, Deadline, 6 Nov. 2025
That said, its functionality should improve considerably once the technology is scaled up, which would partially involve adding more needles to the knitting block.
—New Atlas, 5 Nov. 2025
In early 20th-century Hungary, a village knitting club takes it upon themselves to poison their abusive husbands with arsenic.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 4 Nov. 2025
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Literary Hub, 17 Nov. 2025
The Brit List script, which treads the line between black comedy and drama, is set in the early 20th Century Hungary where a village knitting club takes it upon themselves to poison their abusive husbands with arsenic.
—Diana Lodderhose, Deadline, 6 Nov. 2025
That said, its functionality should improve considerably once the technology is scaled up, which would partially involve adding more needles to the knitting block.
—New Atlas, 5 Nov. 2025
In early 20th-century Hungary, a village knitting club takes it upon themselves to poison their abusive husbands with arsenic.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 4 Nov. 2025
See All Example Sentences for knitting
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“Knitting.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/knitting. Accessed 28 Nov. 2025.
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