knees 1 of 2

plural of knee

knees

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of knee

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for knees
Noun
  • Its approach suggests that in the years since Ferrante first made her way into American readers’ hands, the status of feminist writing has seen a true shift.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025
  • What Happens Next There will likely be long delays before SNAP benefits actually make it into the hands of beneficiaries again.
    Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Blue swapped out his designer kicks for regular cleats for practice the next day.
    Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Tali kicks Jonah a few times before Martine arrives to take him away.
    Allison DeGrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • And at the same time, while the East shivers, much of the West will bask under unusually mild to even warm weather.
    Doyle Rice, USA Today, 4 Nov. 2025
  • That’s partly why the Atlas launch sent shivers through Silicon Valley.
    The AI Insider, Interesting Engineering, 27 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • A day when the Stanley Cup years finally ride the synaptic road back to long-term memory and the brain finally bumps the past for the present.
    Mark Lazerus, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Head to any tennis court to try to get some swings in and one’s sure to see plenty of people playing pickleball, a combination of badminton, ping pong and tennis that sees players swing small paddles on a short court.
    Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 28 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Srinivas, who often jabs the search engine giant, made an interesting point.
    Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Haggard jabs Baird over mailers The race is already tense.
    Kayla Dwyer, IndyStar, 13 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Social media users have sparked a wave of memories, while experts say the trend taps directly into current cultural moods around nostalgia and comfort-core.
    Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2025
  • The singer taps into opera and classical music and sings in 14 different languages on the record.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 9 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • When Arthur tries to stop the stranger who has invaded his home from rifling through his drawers, Frank shoves the frail man to the ground.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Nguyen Nik Bonitto shoves the Jets' left tackle back into Justin Fields and Zach Allen crunches him from the interior on that third-down floater.
    Joe Nguyen, Denver Post, 12 Oct. 2025
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“Knees.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/knees. Accessed 19 Nov. 2025.

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