knitting
noun
knit·ting
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Definition of knitting
1
: the action or method of one that knits
2
: work done or being done by one that knits
Examples of knitting in a Sentence
She keeps her knitting in the closet.
Recent Examples on the Web
Her passions throughout her life included skydiving, swimming, triathlons, coaching, hiking, photography, soap making, sewing, knitting, gardening and painting. — courant.com, "Amanda Ruth Corwin," 8 Sep. 2019 The success of library craft classes inspired the staff to create borrowable knitting and crochet kits. — Washington Post, "Don’t want to buy? You can borrow household items too," 21 Aug. 2019 There is a Jane Austen Book Club, a combination knitting and reading group, and a 15-year-old book club focused on art history for docents of the Long Beach Museum of Art. — Agatha French, Los Angeles Times, "How Long Beach became a book club superhub, with 130 and counting," 15 Aug. 2019 Instead, her characteristic movement is knitting, throughout architecture school, at construction sites, at home, a kind of constant low-level making that, one suspects, allows her room to think. — Alexandra Lange, Curbed, "What ‘Where’d You Go, Bernadette?’ meant to me as a woman in architecture," 13 Aug. 2019 The precision of knitting makes it a great medium for data visualization, such as the time when a German commuter marked all the times her train was delayed in a rail delay scarf. — Dami Lee, The Verge, "The Sleep Blanket tracks his son’s sleep patterns from birth to his first birthday.," 21 July 2019 Among her hobbies were gardening, cooking, and knitting hats and scarves for cancer patients. — orlandosentinel.com, "Deaths in Central Florida: 8/11," 11 Aug. 2019 Some math and an appropriate learning experience via cooking, sewing, knitting—all of which involve algorithms of a sort—can be valuable. — Zeynep Tufekci, Scientific American, "Should Kids Learn to Code?," 7 Aug. 2019 Loose Knit The Group Rep stages Theresa Rebeck’s comedy about five New York women in a weekly knitting circle who meet one very eligible bachelor. — Los Angeles Times, "SoCal theater, July 28-Aug. 4: ‘Ragtime,’ ‘Pericles’ and more," 26 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'knitting.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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More Definitions for knitting
knitting
noun
English Language Learners Definition of knitting
: the action or process of knitting clothing
: materials that are being used by someone who is knitting
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