How to use "knotted" in a sentence

Her heart knotted in her chest, and her lower lip began to quiver again, and she put her head down on the table

Each was hung from the ceiling on a length of fishing line, and the upper end of each line was knotted to its own eyehook that had been screwed firmly into the dry wall

She sat straight up, the sheets knotted in her fists, catapulted out of a nightmare