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Examples of knock back in a Sentence
desperately thirsty, she knocked back an entire glass of water without pausing
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In Paris, Diana was tricked, by her husband and mine, into knocking back a wineglass that had a dead fly in it.
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Weike Wang, The New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2024
But later, Chiles' score was knocked back down when the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled her appeal was submitted four seconds too late.
—Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 12 Aug. 2024
Yet what so many of us recall haplessly knocking back in those bad old days is not even true tequila.
—Chantal Martineau, Foreign Affairs, 25 Nov. 2015
Or at Shuggie’s, knocking back 750 ml of natural orange wine, poured directly into your mouth by Murphy from a Catalan porrón.
POUR IT ON
A trash pie at Shuggies in San Francisco.
—Tamar Adler, Vogue, 25 July 2024
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Weike Wang, The New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2024
But later, Chiles' score was knocked back down when the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled her appeal was submitted four seconds too late.
—Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 12 Aug. 2024
Yet what so many of us recall haplessly knocking back in those bad old days is not even true tequila.
—Chantal Martineau, Foreign Affairs, 25 Nov. 2015
Or at Shuggie’s, knocking back 750 ml of natural orange wine, poured directly into your mouth by Murphy from a Catalan porrón.
POUR IT ON
A trash pie at Shuggies in San Francisco.
—Tamar Adler, Vogue, 25 July 2024
See all Example Sentences for knock back
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“Knock back.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/knock%20back. Accessed 5 Oct. 2024.
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