Examples of 'knotty' in a sentence

Meaning of "knotty"

knotty (adjective) - used to describe something with many knots or entanglements. In a figurative sense, it can also refer to something complicated or difficult to solve
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  • Of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots.
  • Of a part of the body, a tree, etc.: full of knots (knobs or swellings); gnarled, knobbly.
  • Complicated or tricky; complex, difficult.
  • Of an austere or hard nature; rugged.

How to use "knotty" in a sentence

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This is a knotty problem not easily solved.
A small log may be difficult to split if knotty.
Oak is too knotty and too heavy.
We reached conclusions on some knotty issues.
Agricultural policy is a knotty problem in the accession negotiations.
You make everything too knotty.
And who the knotty meshes all.
That knotty little piece of pine he calls a son.
He is very good at solving knotty problems.
This is the knotty problem that i was unable to solve.
See if he can get it in knotty pine.
On the knotty hill bit.
At least the wood is not knotty.
I like a basement with knotty pine and a pool table.
Channel siding is normally supplied in unseasoned knotty grades.

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And for knotty theorems.
It is just that this feels like a sofa somewhat knotty.
If today was a knotty crooked highway.
Siding products are generally categorized as either premium or knotty grades.
If tonight was a knotty crooked tree.
Knotty legal issues.
And hath many braunches knotty and hard.
Knotty which has a medium grading with a smaller amount of knots.
Raise not intricate and knotty points by way of controversy.
A small log may also be difficult to split if knotty and fibrous.
Knotty problems that seemed insoluble yesterday have now been left behind.
These are obviously knotty questions.
And knotty tangles mangle microtubal transports from inside the cells.
I tried to solve a knotty problem.
Incredibly knotty problems of structure now resolve themselves with inspired ease.
Just a little knotty humor.
In the expressed stage the surface of plaques becomes rough and knotty.
This will be a knotty problem.
His real motivation was the challenge of figuring out a particularly knotty problem.
It was too knotty knees.
Knotty wood or when foreign material is not removed from the wood being planed.
How to avoid knotty hair.
Knotty problems about ownership of any intellectual property that results from such.
Your hair is so knotty.
Interiors are finished with knotty pine paneling and polished wood floors.
Icelandic birch has a lot of character partly because it grows crooked and knotty.
Then focus on some knotty problems and begin to experiment with solutions.
It says there is naughty like being bad and knotty like having a lot of knots.
Knotty Scarves will be happy to answer you.
And you would find these sort of knotty little green things.
Two knotty Middle East problems solved.
Humor is often stronger and more effective than sharpness in cutting knotty issues.
Immediately visions of the hacienda with knotty pine and leather upholstered furniture comes to mind.
They were gonna put flecked linoleum over this beautifully preserved knotty red pine.
Floors and walls made from white oak and knotty white cedar are textured and warm.

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