knobby

Example Sentences

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Suddenly the muffin feels like it’s shrugging into a velvet robe and wool slippers, pausing at the window to take in a field of knobby pines.

From Salon • Dec. 16, 2025

“That’s good,” he said, before pointing a knobby finger at me.

From Slate • Oct. 24, 2024

It’s dawn, and someone is crouching near the rows, cutting heads of lettuce, pulling up a few carrots, unearthing a white knobby thing and bringing it all indoors.

From New York Times • Jan. 4, 2024

On foggy Bay Area mornings, I watch pale light break through the cloud cover and illuminate jewel-like droplets of water condensing on these knobby reeds.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 25, 2022

The giraffe bent its knobby head down and wrapped a purplish tongue around the carrot Nicole was holding.

From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith