How to Use knowing in a Sentence

knowing

1 of 2 adjective

• She looked at us in a knowing way.
• The better part of me, the knowing part of me did.
  — NBC news, 21 Sep. 2025
• The better part of me, the knowing part of me did.
  — NBC news, 28 Dec. 2025
• In the video, Castela sings these words with a knowing smirk.
  — Carolina Abbott Galvão, The Dial, 6 Jan. 2026
• Every now and again, a brand-new book waves its knowing hand.
  — Scott Hocker, TheWeek, 11 Feb. 2026
• Daniel says the stop felt like a knowing detail for fans of the show.
  — Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 29 Dec. 2025
• These are a few of the menu items that will earn you a knowing wink from behind the counter.
  — Sunny Hubler, Charlotte Observer, 27 Jan. 2025
• As young fans gripped their face in agony, the older faces held their palms up in knowing shrugs.
  — Beren Cross, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2026
• Laughter and knowing nods followed from the rest of us.
  — Todd Harmonson, Oc Register, 4 Aug. 2025
• This is also a very knowing portrait.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 6 Mar. 2026
• After that, paper media gets a lot glossier, and a lot more knowing.
  — Laura Brown, Artforum, 25 Mar. 2026
• The knowing sense that, for whatever reason, this is a place where you’re meant to be.
  — Berit Thorkelson, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Apr. 2025
• But at least thus far, the show plainly lacks the knowing, campy tone of that erotic-thriller classic.
  — Vulture, 4 June 2023
• The receptionist watches her leave with a knowing look — there is more to come here.
  — Christina Grace Tucker, Vulture, 12 Dec. 2024
• Time reveals all truth, all knowing, all reality that will comes to be.
  — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 1 Dec. 2025
• Not all products have the same shelf life, so knowing which ones are past their prime is crucial for your skin's overall health.
  — Olivia McIntosh, Martha Stewart, 30 Dec. 2025
• The mother-daughter duo shared the knowing look while Prince Louis was briefly out of his seat.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 7 May 2023
• The dealer does not make a remark, your neighbor at the table does not raise a knowing eyebrow.
  — Steve Silverman, Baltimore Sun, 8 Jan. 2024
• Might the oversized love throw pillow be a knowing wink to the Cirque du Soleil show of the same name?
  — Catherine Dunwoody, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
• Here, a simple introduction -- a knowing glance among friends -- takes place.
  — Susan Scutti, CNN, 11 Apr. 2018
• The result is clothing packed with fashion history and a knowing wink.
  — Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 9 Apr. 2026
• Brown, in response, gave the singer a knowing look before bursting into laughter and putting her hands to her chin.
  — EW.com, 23 Oct. 2024
• Elizabeth, in color, looks into the camera with a knowing, close-lipped smile.
  — Emily Harnett, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
• There is a knowing, winky David Lynchian patina to her music and her persona.
  — Shane O’Neill, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2024
• By contrast, human beings aren’t all-powerful, all-knowing, and all-good.
  — JSTOR Daily, 13 Nov. 2025
• Styled, as always, by Danielle Goldberg, the mini dress reads like a knowing sequel.
  — Daisy Maldonado, InStyle, 12 Jan. 2026
• Sure, Rusty and Barbara share a knowing look as Dad preps the final course, but there’s no malice there.
  — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 24 July 2024
• The effigy gives a knowing look over the shoulder with a soft smile, a move Diana would do, and was revealed on a deeply poignant date.
  — Janine Henni, PEOPLE, 21 Nov. 2025
• Her voice is warm and knowing, full of sisterly disclosures that veer into platitude.
  — Annalisa Quinn, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Nov. 2022
• There is more collaboration, more knowing and being known, more sweetness.
  — Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, TIME, 17 Sep. 2024

knowing

2 of 2 noun

• But there’s a catch to all this knowing.
  — Big Think, 10 Sep. 2025
• Just sit with me in the not-knowing.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
• How small my knowing was in the face of all that there is.
  — Literary Hub, 24 Apr. 2026
• Trust the inner knowing that tells you to go for it.
  — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 10 Apr. 2026
• His winking tone was met with a knowing laugh from the crowd.
  — Melanie Mason Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2021
• But who knew how long these birds had been there without our knowing?
  — Lauren Markham, Harper's Magazine, 16 Mar. 2021
• The comfort, the ease, the knowing of each other is the same.
  — Julie Beck, The Atlantic, 2 Apr. 2021
• But so does the knowing how to do the small things that make a difference in games.
  — Dylan Hernández Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2021
• There's no knowing when things will return to normal even as the threat of the fire wanes.
  — Justin Price, The Arizona Republic, 25 June 2020
• No; this magic is what results from the deep knowing that your win is my win is our win.
  — Gloria Alamrew, refinery29.com, 21 Sep. 2023
• The problem then is clearly in the doing, not in the knowing.
  — Andrew Deutscher, Forbes, 22 June 2021
• Murray took a beat to answer, pursing her lips with a knowing stare.
  — Dana Bash and Abbie Sharpe, CNN, 4 July 2021
• But what about when those memories and that knowing is one-sided?
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2021
• Klein cracked a knowing smile when asked Thursday about what happened next.
  — Michael Casagrande | [email protected], al, 30 Dec. 2022
• In your body, intuition tends to feel like a calm, inner knowing.
  — Forbes, 7 June 2022
• And the slightest of side-eye, the knowing, the release of a lifetime of doubt.
  — Jeneé Osterheldt, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2022
• There is no way of knowing, again, because of the solipsism problem.
  — John Horgan, Scientific American, 9 Mar. 2021
• North filmed a live video, recording the inside of her home without the mom of four knowing.
  — PEOPLE.com, 18 Feb. 2022
• Act with courage, but don’t lose sight of your personal needs and inner knowing.
  — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 3 Apr. 2026
• In the blink of an eye their hearts and minds glow with the radiance of transcendent knowing.
  — Sarah Brookbank, Cincinnati.com, 9 Oct. 2019
• This was not, to be sure, out of any knowing or deliberate malice.
  — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 20 Sep. 2020
• In the meantime, rest easy knowing that the future of sustainable footwear is in good hands.
  — Eliza Huber, refinery29.com, 28 May 2020
• Once the connection has been made, then the knowing and growing can begin.
  — Paul Herman, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2022
• Of course, much analysis will be put into whether the new laugh is a more knowing-sounding laugh.
  — Chris Willman, chicagotribune.com, 9 Apr. 2021
• There was some hand-holding and knowing smiles shared between contestants on the stage.
  — Kelly Schremph, refinery29.com, 10 Mar. 2020
• With this recipe from chef Ed Scarpone, your hands can become the knowing kind.
  — Bonnie S. Benwick, Washington Post, 7 June 2019
• Of course, your girlfriend would have to know the truth, and your friend would have to be OK with her knowing.
  — Abigail Van Buren, Twin Cities, 16 Oct. 2019
• Yet there’s no knowing for sure if picking up the pace and action will hook young kids, keep them engaged, and thus grow the game.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2021
• But knowing is not doing, which is why coaching must be infused into the system.
  — Thomas Lim, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
• With her hair askew and a knowing look in her eyes, Roth flashed a devilish smirk as the fire roared behind her.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 2021