How to use "known" in a sentence

The worst night that I've ever known

Again, in any law upon this subject, ought not all the safeguards of liberty known in civilized and humane jurisprudence to be introduced, so that a free man be not, in any case, surrendered as a slave? And might it not be well at the same time to provide by law for the enforcement of that clause in the Constitution which guarantees that "the citizen of each State shall be entitled to all privileged and immunities of citizens in the several States?"

The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all

He was the most brilliant man I have ever known in the insurance profession

He told me that he had not known him for very long

By that time Mary Ann - known as Polly - was very drunk

The man called Jack the Ripper was never caught, and his name will probably never be known

A recent suspect is the famous artist Walter Sickert, known as the British Impressionist

In fact, Hutchinson had known Mary about three years, so he certainly knew that she had her own room

There were stories of a mysterious man known as 'Leather Apron', who demanded money from prostitutes and beat them if they resisted

At first, no one believed him, but he managed to persuade the court by skilfully questioning each of the witnesses, revealing personal information that only the real Jean Valjean could have known

Now, he discovered the greatest joy he had ever known by just standing beside her bed and looking at her innocent, trusting little face

He often gave money to beggars, which was unwise, because he soon became known in the area as 'the beggar who gives money to beggars'.

For six weeks, he had known nothing but uncomplicated happiness

He had been more interested in catching Thenardier, who had escaped from prison and was known to be in the area.

If you had known the truth, you would have felt obliged to be good to me, a worthless criminal

Here, Mrs Van Hopper found out which well-known people were staying in the town

'There isn't one well-known person here,' she said in her loud voice

I felt she had known the truth all the time.

Had Favell known Rebecca? What had he been doing in the west wing? There were some very valuable things in the house

'You could not have known.'

'I ought to have known,' I said.

She had known what would happen.

'I don't suppose your new bride wants to be known as the wife of a murderer.'

He's a very well-known women's doctor.'

For one thing, she hadn't known what she could say

At least it wasn't like the Michael Evans she had known for the past couple of years

She'd always known when he was lying

Later, after Danny was dead, she'd repressed her feelings because she'd known that Michael had been truly suffering from the loss of his child, and she hadn't wanted to add to his misery

If I'd seen the body, then I'd have known for sure

How long have you known Christina Evans?

Even after all this time, when she thought about Danny's last moments on earth - the terror he must have known, the excruciating pain he must have endured, even if it was of brief duration - she began to choke with sorrow and pity

Christina Evans probably hadn't entertained a single doubt about the official explanation of the Sierra accident; she probably hadn't known a damned thing about Pandora when she had requested an exhumation, but her timing couldn't have been worse.

If the woman actually hadn't known anything of the cover-up, then the Network could have used her ex-husband and the legal system to delay the reopening of the grave

Kennebeck had known Alexander for five years and had despised him from the day they met

"I know human nature," Alexander said, though he was one of the least observant and least analytical men that Kennebeck had ever known.

You couldn't have known what would happen after I talked to Kennebeck."

And maybe he wouldn't have known how to handle Vince

The night clerk at the rental agency, from whom they had signed out the car, had known exactly where Bellicosti's place was, and he had marked the shortest route on the free city map provided with the Chevy.

They embraced, and then she said, "If they knew we were flying to Reno, why didn't they follow us from the airport? Then they would have known we weren't going to walk in the front door of Bellicosti's place."

Even if she had not known that these deep woodlands harbored secrets about Danny and the deaths of the other scouts, she would have found them mysterious and unnervingly primeval.

but to what? The commissaire would have known what to do with such an advantage; I did not

I thought about Dr Stone, who was a well-known archaeologist

'When Lawrence came here, I told you that I had only known him slightly before

I had known him rather well

So we quickly started to talk about the Protheroe case, and of 'Dr Stone', who had turned out to be a well-known thief

I do not think I would have known anything about it myself if I had not met Ogilvy, the well-known astronomer

Nothing more of the fighting was known that night, the night of my drive to Leatherhead and back.

No details are known

If I had known, I would have left him at Walton, but I had not been able to see ahead

I have learned since then that I was not the first discoverer of the Martian defeat -several wanderers like me had already known about it on the previous night

God is good, he brought the coup before her sister's affair became widely known and ruined her name...

I had always known this, and I had never before felt anything more than a teacher's interest in my students

I had only known Sir P for four months.

She was one of the most famous scientists the world has ever known.