Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: knitting
IPA transcription: [n'ɪtɪŋ]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: knitting
    Meaning: creating knitted wear
  • Synonyms: knit, knitting, knitwork
    Meaning: needlework created by interlacing yarn in a series of connected loops using straight eyeless needles or by machine
Usage examples
  • Knitting, sewing, reading, writing, ciphering, will be all you will have to teach.
  • 'What is it you want to buy?' the Sheep said at last, looking up for a moment from her knitting.
  • 'Ha!' said my aunt, knitting her brows thoughtfully, and glancing at Agnes. 'And what's become of him?'
  • Nora was there knitting by a table, two big pans of cookies just out of the oven cooling in front of her.
  • Only Aunt Rachel sat, still and knitting, in the black walnut chair; and the children played on the floor.
  • Only one soul was to be seen, and that was Madame Defarge--who leaned against the door-post, knitting, and saw nothing.
  • However, she wasn't hurt, and was soon up again: the Sheep went on with her knitting all the while, just as if nothing had happened.
  • She quickly brought them down and handed them in;--and immediately afterwards leaned against the door-post, knitting, and saw nothing.
  • And as he talked on, he grew quite bold, and actually had the audacity to ask Miss Rebecca for whom she was knitting the green silk purse?
  • So Nora put down her knitting, and taking the cat on her lap, a great sleepy white fellow who had been purring by the stove, she began to tell them stories.