How To Use Knock-knee In A Sentence
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He came of age during the Depression, arrived in Congress from Massachusetts in 1952 and came to power amid the plenty of the '60s and' 70s (he once boasted that he'd put money into an appropriations bill to study knock-knees).
The Last Hurrah For Tip O'neill, 1912-1994
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Two years ago, of course, it was only four, thanks to breaking his leg off a brainless divil of a knock-kneed spalpeen.
Forfeit
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In addition to the torsional profile test for bowlegs and knock-knees, angulation should be quantified by measuring the intercondylar or intermalleolar distance.
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The first turn threw him, causing his arms to windmill, but Eric regained his balance and fell into another knock-kneed arc.
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Are the young ones always knock-knees with feet splayed inward, or is that just the defensive stance when startled by sketch artists in the wild?
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He had a curious knock-kneed kind of walk that seemed to send him bumping into things all the time.
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All his art is self-portraiture while his pseudo-radical groupuscule, the toothsomely named Party of Dynamic Erection, is camouflage for the knock-kneed terror that its members – Wick, Irwin and Nipple Warner – all feel in the presence of women.
Eunarchy in the UK: George Harrison's first movie
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She had knock-knees and was skinny, with a short pixie haircut.
History of a Suicide
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Although rarely serious, children also can be evaluated and followed for conditions such as bowlegs, knock-knees and pigeon toes.
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Although rarely serious, children also can be evaluated and followed for conditions such as bowlegs, knock-knees and pigeon toes.
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Effie is spavined, Addie is knock-kneed and stringhalt, and Jessie, the only one who showed her stockings, has legs without calves, as classic in their outlines as the curves of a broom handle.
So Sue Me - The Panda's Thumb
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It's being six foot two and desperate-looking that does it, you know; if I'd been short-arsed with no chin and knock-knees, no one in search of a hero would have looked at me twice.
THE NUMBERS
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You can also adjust the fit of the boot with impressive precision (which I love, since my shape is slightly knock-kneed, meaning that I always need to rotate and shift my boots around to fit).
New World Notes
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He was flatfooted, knock-kneed and didn't remotely move his hips, just waved his arms like a lamppost.
The Sun
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Children were bullied and tortured with the kindest intentions; even Maria Edgeworth at her fashionable school was stretched in a sort of machine to make her grow; Mr. Day, as we know, to please the lady of his affections, passed eight hours a day in the stocks in order to turn out his knock-knees.
Castle Rackrent
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His ugliness was embittered somewhat by sunken, toothless jaws and an enigmatical stare from a cross-eye; he was also knock-kneed, and as an erstwhile gunpowder worker, had lost two fingers and a large part of one ear.
Across China on Foot
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She galloped away towards the city with a slightly knock-kneed gait, her hair streaming in the wind.
STAGE FRIGHT
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Instead of standing as if she were balancing a book on her head, she was knock-kneed and coltishly awkward.
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With knock-knees and pigeon toes, he was not your quintessential runner, but he trained like a demon.
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Some are behemoths in the truest sense of the word, massive as oil tankers, others, small knock-kneed and timorous and as prone to panic attacks as barking deer.
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Whoever placed her feet, in their unfashionable lace-up shoes, left one askew, giving her a knock-kneed appearance.
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By long continued standing the knees become so weak that they turn inwards, producing that deformity which is called "knock-knees" and I have sometimes seen it so striking, that the individual has actually lost twelve inches of his height by it.
Archive 2008-07-01
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He diagnosed her as flat-footed and knock-kneed.
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Pathology the abundant laying down of osteoid tissue epiphyseal cartilage cells grow very rapidly widening of the epiphysis line Long bone Rachitic rosary Bracelets of wrist and ankle flat bone Craniotabes Square head disorder of new bone formation the bones are soft Bowlegs and knock-knees Pigeon breast Mosby items and derived items © 2005, 2001 by Mosby, Inc.
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And in those days I looked like a geek—I wore colorful plastic rhinestone-trimmed glasses, had skinny knock-knees, and was a straight “A” student.
This Family of Mine
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It has ended as would end the experiment of a man seeking to raise a breed of winning race-horses out of unexercised, short-winded, knock-kneed mares.
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