How to Use knockout in a Sentence

knockout

1 of 3 noun

• He scored a knockout in the fourth round.
• He won the match by a knockout.
• She's a real knockout in that dress.
• The knockout round games will take place on Dec. 4 and Dec. 5.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 15 Aug. 2023
• Great Britain also made it to the knockout stage of the 2020 Olympics.
  — Tim Chan, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Aug. 2023
• And from the sax player to the drummer, that band was a knockout.
  — Joe Lynch, Billboard, 20 Feb. 2024
• This is 14th time the teams have met in the knockout round of a tournament.
  — Damian Calhoun, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Mar. 2024
• The Bulls will play four games in the group stage — two at home and two on the road — to vie for a place in the knockout round.
  — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2023
• Still, the odds of Haiti advancing to the knockout rounds seem slim.
  — Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 26 July 2023
• Tyson said of Paul, who has a 9-1 record with six knockouts.
  — Reuters, CNN, 2 Apr. 2024
• The top two teams from each of the eight groups will advance to the knockout stage, which begins on Aug. 5.
  — Anne M. Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 July 2023
• Free lunch will be served at noon and the knockout brackets start at 1 p.m.
  — Shelby Dermer, The Enquirer, 11 May 2023
• His shot-clock beating floater with 55 seconds left in the game proved to be the knockout blow.
  — Akeem Glaspie, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Mar. 2023
• The tie was just enough to ensure the Americans advanced to the knockout round.
  — Anne M. Peterson, Baltimore Sun, 1 Aug. 2023
• The team can still advance to the knockout stage of the Leagues Cup based on goal differential.
  — Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 July 2023
• The top two finishers in points from each group will advance to the 32-team knockout stage.
  — oregonlive, 26 July 2023
• In 2018, the country won its first two knockout games on penalties.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2022
• The two celebrities with the lowest number of votes would enter the knockout.
  — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 26 Oct. 2023
• Even before the knockout rounds, four of the eight teams making their World Cup debut won a game.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2023
• Yes, many of the games lack any real sense of jeopardy, seeing as 16 of the teams will make it to the knockout rounds anyway.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2024
• Four of the first 10 knockout games in this World Cup have been decided by penalties.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2022
• The whole night was an emotional knockout, even by the Hold Steady’s standards.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 2 Feb. 2023
• The winner of each group advanced to the knockout round, as did one wild card from each conference.
  — Bryan Toporek, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• After that, the World Cup is a straight knockout tournament.
  — Andrew Keh, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2022
• But even as the team moves on to Sunday morning’s knockout game against Sweden, the seeds of doubt have taken root.
  — Tara Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Aug. 2023
• Even Brazilian fans took note of the opposing team’s thirst trap for their first knockout round match.
  — Soo Youn, NBC News, 7 Dec. 2022
• And that bridge is pretty knockout; that’s one of the most dramatic moments on the album.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 3 Mar. 2023
• The winners of the six groups will advance to the single-elimination knockout round.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 15 Aug. 2023
• Neal has nine career knockout wins and has faced tough competition in the UFC for some time.
  — Trent Reinsmith, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
• Instead, England wobbled at the wrong time and the young twentysomethings in the home team delivered the knockout punch.
  — Tim Ellis, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024

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knockout

2 of 3 adjective

• The Wimbledon tennis tournament is a knockout competition.
• The bout ended in a knockout loss for Ayala in the 15th.
  — John Whisler, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Sep. 2021
• The Tigers were primed for a knockout punch but that flag put that on hold.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 28 Nov. 2021
• The Voice Ed Sheeran serves as mentor to all of the teams on the first night of the knockout rounds.
  — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2021
• The club also failed to reach the knockout stage of the Champions League.
  — Manuel Veth, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2021
• This is, now, what the knockout stages of the Champions League do.
  — New York Times, 29 Apr. 2022
• This will be the first match in the knockout stage of the tournament against a team who topped their group.
  — Raphael Romero Ruiz, The Arizona Republic, 3 Dec. 2022
• Italy was then shut out by Korea, 4-0, in the knockout stage.
  — New York Times, 12 Mar. 2022
• Even with the loss, the Americans still should be able to advance to the knockout round.
  — Josh Dubow, ajc, 28 July 2021
• The top two teams from each of the three groups advance to the knockout stage, as well as the next two teams based on points.
  — San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Aug. 2021
• With six points, Jamaica punched its ticket to the knockout rounds of the Gold Cup.
  — Julia Poe, orlandosentinel.com, 16 July 2021
• This was their first match of the knockout stage of the Tokyo Olympics, and with that, the Americans will advance to the next game.
  — Alexandra Svokos, ABC News, 30 July 2021
• The knockout round will be on those two networks as well as NBC.
  — USA TODAY, 21 July 2021
• Neither team could apply a knockout blow to put the game out of reach.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 6 Sep. 2021
• Then in the 87th minute, Romeo Parks provided the knockout blow to Hartford to make it 2-0.
  — Hartford Courant, 17 Apr. 2022
• The Corolla makes up for lack of a knockout punch by keeping mass trim.
  — K.c. Colwell, Car and Driver, 4 Nov. 2022
• Only 15 of the 16-team lineup in the knockout stage were known on Wednesday night.
  — Graham Dunbar, ajc, 9 Dec. 2021
• Unlike in the group stage, when games can end in ties, there has to be a winner in knockout games.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 3 Dec. 2022
• Both teams advanced to the knockout round by posting 1-2 records in pool play.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 3 May 2021
• Or show it to you in this knockout collection of all things bird.
  — Jim Williams, Star Tribune, 11 May 2021
• The knockout stage to determine the medal-winning teams will be held from Aug. 1-7.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 3 July 2021
• After his knockout loss to Fury in 2020, Wilder was livid that Breland had thrown in the towel to stop the fight.
  — Josh Katzowitz, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2021
• The Voice Snoop Dogg continues as mentor for the final night of the knockout round.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2021
• Not reaching the knockout rounds of the Champions League is a failure, of course.
  — New York Times, 26 Nov. 2021
• The Swiss have not won a match in a knockout stage at any major tournament in 67 years.
  — Tim Bielik, cleveland, 28 June 2021
• Only the top two teams in each group are guaranteed to advance to the knockout rounds, along with the two best third-place teams.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 23 July 2021
• In some ways, the last week’s listlessness may not matter: Pool play is over, and slates are wiped clean for the knockout stage.
  — Sean Gregory/tokyo, Time, 29 July 2021
• The 32-team lineup is the perfect number for a knockout bracket.
  — Bloomberg.com, 30 Mar. 2022
• One of the exciting teams that will be playing in the knockout stage is Portugal.
  — Chris Ilenstine, Chicago Tribune, 5 Dec. 2022
• South Korea scores its winning goal during stoppage time in the ninety-first minute, advancing to the knockout stage for the third time in the country’s history.
  — Julia Cho, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2022

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knock out

3 of 3 verb

• Mann said some of his pecans were knocked out of the trees by the storm.
  — Drew Kann, ajc, 1 Sep. 2023
• The men’s team was knocked out in the first round, but not a peep from Trump about that.
  — Letters To The Editor, Orlando Sentinel, 8 Aug. 2024
• There are a few trails to choose from and all can be knocked out in a day.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 11 Feb. 2024
• But, the Packers and Eagles were knocked out of the first round.
  — Rudie Obias, Variety, 6 Sep. 2024
• But there are days where as soon as my head hits the pillow, I’m knocked out.
  — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 28 Mar. 2024
• For the men's game, at least one 1-seed has been knocked out before the Elite Eight in all but one of the last 14 years.
  — Becky Sullivan, NPR, 23 Mar. 2024
• But Iñiguez, 36, landed a punch that knocked out Nixon with 14 seconds left in the first round to win the fight.
  — José M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 21 Feb. 2023
• Moore’s legs were knocked out from under him before the first whistle of the fall.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 May 2024
• So did efforts to knock out the ball, Brown sloughing off the probing hand.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2020
• Instead the researchers used a quail muscle cell line to knock out FBP2.
  — Viviane Callier, Scientific American, 24 Feb. 2023
• The storm knocked out power to tens of thousands and lashed the coasts of the northeast US and Atlantic Canada with wind and waves.
  — Nouran Salahieh, CNN, 17 Sep. 2023
• Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers, who was knocked out of last year’s game in Austin, is back for the Longhorns.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 9 Sep. 2023
• The Chiefs’ starting quarterback — this time Joe Montana — was knocked out of the game again.
  — Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 19 Jan. 2024
• Two days knocking out short day hikes throughout the park left me craving more.
  — Graham Averill, Outside Online, 28 Oct. 2024
• Navy, in the poll two straight weeks, was knocked out after committing six turnovers in its 37-point loss to Notre Dame.
  — Eric Olson, The Denver Post, 27 Oct. 2024
• Eubanks played for a fourth time there last year and was knocked out as a Round 2 just another guy.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2023
• This storm would be the perfect time to hit some substations and knock out power.
  — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 26 Sep. 2024
• But there’s a moment where he gets knocked out and lays on the ground for several minutes.
  — Jenelle Riley, Variety, 11 Aug. 2023
• His two-out, three-run blast in the sixth hit the scoreboard beyond center field, knocking out a few lights.
  — Patrick Saunders, The Denver Post, 6 Sep. 2024
• The storm is expected to bring flooding rain and strong winds that may knock out power.
  — Carlie Kollath Wells, Axios, 11 Sep. 2024
• She's been knocking out fierce high-fashion looks, too.
  — Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 12 July 2023
• The Hyundai is designed to knock out two grueling ‘Ring laps, recharge in 18 minutes, and do it all over again.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 17 Apr. 2024
• Late in the third quarter of a Week 13 game against the Steelers in Pittsburgh, Huntley was knocked out of the game with a concussion.
  — Brian Wacker, Baltimore Sun, 11 Aug. 2023
• Then Martinez has running room on the right side and finally is knocked out of bounds at the Spartans’ 17.
  — Nick Daschel | [e-mail], oregonlive, 3 Sep. 2023
• And school system lawyers will get other chances to knock out the claims before any trial would take place.
  — Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2021
• During some of the fight sequences, some characters are knocked out and some are thrown off cliffs into the abyss.
  — Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 8 Mar. 2024
• The strong storms also brought hail and heavy rains to the state and knocked out power to thousands of utility customers.
  — George Walker Iv, Joey Cappelletti, and Ed White, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 May 2024
• Winds on Friday could be strong enough to topple tree limbs and knock out power in the rest of the state as well, forecasters warned.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 2 Mar. 2023
• Lawmakers will vote to knock out one of those, and will hold an indicative vote on the final two.
  — Jill Lawless, Chicago Tribune, 21 Oct. 2022
• On Friday, a storm knocked out power to thousands of customers across North Texas.
  — Hojun Choi, Dallas News, 12 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024