knuckle - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • rap: Obstacles: Players in a round must hold their breath while rapping knuckles, and the first player to breathe is out.
  • have: At the third fire both gentlemen were wounded slightly, and I had a knuckle chipped.
  • graze: Only then did I notice the grazed knuckles on Teal'c's right hand.
  • bruise: No games of hide and seek, no dirty hands and no bruised knuckles.

Adjective modifier

  • bare: Without them, armies would fight naked with bare knuckles.
  • white: They left slippery trails under her white knuckles, which grasped the drink in front of her.
  • first: Note that the finger flexes from the first knuckle ( MCP joint ) and extends at the middle one ( PIP joint ).
  • skinned: That way you will avoid most episodes of skinned knuckles.
  • middle: There's a bad safety from McCulloch, caught the middle pocket knuckle.
  • White: White knuckle ride out of Gatwick, bad weather, plain bad landing at Sharm!

Modifies a noun

  • duster: In 1969 in The New Ely someone showed me a set of knuckle dusters.
  • ride: A white knuckle ride you will remember for the rest of your life!
  • joint: The ' knuckle joint ' being about '6 o'clock ' ) ( Figure 5b.
  • passenger: Your course finishes with a white knuckle passenger ride with your instructor, showing you how to take these vehicles to their limits!
  • bone: Traditional game of 5 stones, jacks or knuckle bones.
  • fight: Jensen's favorite set piece from the X-Men is the opening fight scene involving Logan in a bare knuckle fight.

Noun used with modifier

  • pork: It takes a bit of searching to find the main ingredient -- a pork knuckle from the fore-end of a pig.
  • brass: The ninja of Japan wore these brass knuckles, which were made of a metal plate adorned with four spikes extending from the palm.

Preposition: of

  • hand: The dominant hand is held palm up holding the other hand, also palm up, so that the knuckles of both hands overlap.

Preposition: with

  • ruler: Does it whack you across the knuckles with a ruler?

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