How to Use knight in a Sentence

knight

1 of 2 noun
  • He was made a knight.
  • At first glance, Matt Smith seems too chill to be a knight.
    Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 27 Dec. 2023
  • Tyland is a knight on the small council and a future Hand of the King.
    Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 4 Sep. 2022
  • Instead, on one move during the game, the king could move like a knight.
    Dylan Loeb McClain, New York Times, 27 May 2023
  • Second, the knight lives and even gets a visit from Princess Astrid.
    Lincee Ray, EW.com, 21 Apr. 2023
  • What comes next is not from an epic quest that ends with the knight winning the hand of the fair maiden.
    Stephen Rodrick, Rolling Stone, 1 May 2022
  • Oh yeah, say that again, mate, let alone being a knight.
    Steve Baltin, Forbes, 5 June 2022
  • The Winter Knight saga who is black and a knight as well, though don’t ask me for details.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 25 Aug. 2022
  • In the graphic novel and in this film, [Ballister’s] the black knight.
    Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 July 2023
  • The sweet moment ends with a knight alerting them of Rhaenys' arrival.
    Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Joey wore a knight costume, too, which did not include a shirt.
    Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 13 Feb. 2024
  • The knight carries a huge axe and makes a strange proposal, in such a way that the honor of the whole court feels at stake.
    Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Above the birdlike forefoot of a knight, Above Quixote’s birdlike lance.
    Osip Mandelstam, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2022
  • The knight who rode out of that battle unscathed is worth listening to.
    Greg Autry, Forbes, 3 July 2022
  • My dad was a knight and the chairman of the Catholic Men Organization.
    Stephanie Busari, CNN, 6 June 2022
  • In 2009, he was made a knight of the Ordre National du Québec, a high civic honor.
    Penelope Green, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2023
  • In 2014, she was made a dame — the female equivalent of a knight — for services to British fashion.
    By Danica Kirka and Jill Lawless, Dallas News, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Lack of crowd control led to a wall behind the altar collapsing and killing a knight.
    Anne Thériault, Longreads, 21 June 2022
  • After being falsely accused of a crime, the knight is forced on a journey to clear his name.
    Karen Idelson, Variety, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Grayson Waller walked out wearing a knight’s headdress a la Scott Steiner.
    Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 4 Feb. 2023
  • What’s the difference between Santa Clause and a knight?
    Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Doodles of knights jousting with the creatures are common in the margins of medieval books.
    Ella Riley-Adams, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Both had learned to play only recently — after a few moves, each had lost a knight.
    Olivia Bensimon Todd Heisler, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Drake then enters the scene as a knight on horseback, wearing shining armor and a fur cape.
    Hattie Lindert, PEOPLE.com, 7 May 2022
  • The scene required him to adopt an outrageous accent to warn the knights about a scary beast, which ends up being a rabbit.
    Sopan Deb, New York Times, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Shelton is looking down at a book in the photo, while Gauff holds a silver knight's helmet.
    Natasha Dye, Peoplemag, 20 Mar. 2024
  • The packaging of this fragrance is truly fitting for a knight.
    Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Nov. 2022
  • The knight has been wrongfully accused of a crime, and mischievous shapeshifter Nimona is the only one who can help clear his name.
    Jessica Leigh Mattern, Country Living, 17 July 2023
  • The prologue gives us Don Quixote in his old-fashioned study/bedroom dreaming of knight errantry.
    Jeffrey Gantz, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Fabien Frankel, who portrays the knight onscreen, is 28 years old.
    ELLE, 5 Sep. 2022
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knight

2 of 2 verb
  • He is to be knighted by the Queen for his career as an actor.
  • He had been knighted in 1965 as the drummer for the Beatles.
    Piet Levy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Apr. 2018
  • And he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his service to the arts.
    Katie Reilly, Time, 16 Mar. 2018
  • In 1998, Gambon was knighted by the Queen for his services to drama.
    Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2023
  • So to be anointed in that way is like getting a blessing from the Pope or being knighted by the Queen.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 25 Nov. 2019
  • For his work on the council, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1975.
    Anne Kenderdine, Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2018
  • Well, maybe not knighted but perhaps a strong season and a manager of the year award.
    James Masters, CNN, 6 Aug. 2019
  • Three films to be shown on Tuesdays at 1:30 p.m. star British actresses who have been knighted by the queen.
    Susan Dunne, courant.com, 26 Aug. 2019
  • Three decades after knighting him, the British monarch upped the ante, awarding him an Order of Merit.
    Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 4 Apr. 2019
  • Sir Sir is most commonly a title given to a man knighted by the British monarch.
    Karen Mizoguchi, PEOPLE.com, 1 July 2017
  • He was knighted in 2008 for his charitable work in both Britain and Hong Kong.
    kansascity, 2 Sep. 2017
  • He was knighted in 2008 for his charitable work in Britain and Hong Kong.
    Seattle Times Staff & News Services, The Seattle Times, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Punk icons, rapper activists and knighted pop stars alike have all announced the end of decades-long careers within the last year.
    Natalie Maher, Billboard, 22 Feb. 2018
  • Everyday heroes will be announced and knighted at the event.
    Sheryl Devore, Lake County News-Sun, 25 June 2018
  • But that seemed more like a case of Brits having a bias toward a Welsh actor who has literally been knighted by the queen.
    Brendan Morrow, The Week, 12 Mar. 2023
  • McCartney receives the honor 20 years after he was knighted by the Queen.
    Abby Jones, Billboard, 4 May 2018
  • At the time, the story was that Ed had attended a party with Princess Beatrice and knelt for a pretend knighting with a real sword.
    Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 12 Mar. 2017
  • Ové was knighted in 2022 for his services to British cinema and media.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 17 Sep. 2023
  • He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth for his services to drama in 1998.
    Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Sep. 2023
  • At the age of ninety-three, Wodehouse was finally knighted.
    Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 25 May 2020
  • Here, Craig-Martin, who was knighted for his services to art in 2016, opens up about his process for our peek inside the habits of a creative mastermind.
    Adam Rathe, Town & Country, 25 Jan. 2019
  • Lauren is expected to be knighted at a celebration in the New Year.
    Steff Yotka, Vogue, 14 Nov. 2018
  • He was knighted in France and in England and had 12 authoring doctorates.
    Norman Vanamee, Town & Country, 16 May 2019
  • The discovery rocked the astronomical world and as a result Herschel was knighted by the King of England.
    Curtis Roelle, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 4 Oct. 2019
  • My husband, who is from a lower middle-class background like myself, has been knighted!
    Miss Manners, star-telegram, 23 July 2017
  • The French knight Jean de Maingre, for example, could climb up the underside of a ladder using only his hands while in full armor.
    David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 26 Dec. 2018
  • Later that summer, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II and was in remission by that fall.
    Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 29 June 2023
  • Now the 70-year-old tycoon, who was knighted in his home country but isn’t as well known outside of Europe, is making a deeper push into the U.S. market.
    Jenny Strasburg, WSJ, 19 Mar. 2023
  • He was knighted in 1975 for his work in researching the failures of the autonomic nervous system.
    Chris Chavez, SI.com, 4 Mar. 2018
  • King Boreas also knighted four clients and gave them each a special certificate.
    Sainted & Tainted Writers, Twin Cities, 11 Feb. 2017

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