This tied him for third place on the career list with none other than Pelé, his countryman and the man who persuaded him not to fall into despair when his knee betrayed him.

Spirit was one of the last to go, and I could see she was fighting it, but her knees buckled and betrayed her.

Seaine would have stood to leave if she had not feared her knees would betray her.

His knees betrayed him also, so that he fell slumping down onto the dirty stones, seeing through a reddish haze, fighting now for nothing greater than to draw a breath.

Before his knees betrayed him, Mickey Mantle was the complete baseball player.

Mark, on seeing his friend turn pale, and sit down as if his knees had betrayed him, sheathed Sightblinder, and advanced to offer words of greeting and reassurance.

The world spun and he felt sick and his knees nearly betrayed him.

His knees betrayed him as he jumped; he landed on the slope, slid, caught himself, and clawed his way up sixty feet of naked trunk.

His knee betrayed him.

Through four days of practice, Doc Rivers' left knee has not betrayed him.