How to Use knocker in a Sentence

knocker

noun

• Replace or polish hardware such as the handle, knocker and house numbers.
  — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Sacbee.com, 6 Apr. 2026
• Replace or polish the hardware — handle, knocker and house numbers.
  — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Miami Herald, 6 Apr. 2026
• This lush harvest look is designed to avoid blocking handles and knockers while adding deceptively faux foliage to your door.
  — Mariana Best, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Sep. 2025
• Upgrade your doorknob, knocker or hardware to a modern finish for instant polish.
  — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Sacbee.com, 13 Apr. 2026
• Known as knockers in England, kobolds also live in caves and mines and make knocking noises directing human miners where to dig.
  — Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2025
• Upgrading your doorknob, knocker or hardware to a modern finish makes a noticeable difference.
  — Miami Herald, 13 Apr. 2026
• Walk through the town in the early morning and see how the doors of local houses, typically adorned with knockers in the shape of a hand, are hung with warm, fresh bread delivered by the local bakery.
  — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Apr. 2026
• The elegant bean grinder features 31 settings that are dial controlled—not to mention a grind knocker on the side mitigates grind retention inside.
  — Jack Byram, Architectural Digest, 7 Nov. 2025
• The technique was originally built for door-knockers advocating for ballot initiatives but can be adapted to other kinds of fraught conversations.
  — Lisa Pavia-Higel, The Conversation, 27 May 2026
• Inside looked like any other beauty shop—wigs in the back, buckets of cheap sunglasses and door-knocker earrings, a distinct scent formed through the combination of chemicals and natural butters.
  — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 27 Feb. 2026
• The invention of electricity made menial jobs like the lamplighter, the elevator operator, and the knocker-up, the human equivalent to the modern alarm clock, irrelevant.
  — Jake Angelo, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2026
• The door-knockers themselves seemed more confident, suggesting that the party’s pearl-clutching over gerrymandering was not as widespread as politicians like Deeds and Maldonado feared.
  — Russell Berman, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2026