knobby

Example Sentences

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Striding forward, his sturdy right hand clutches a knobby wooden walking stick, cut from a tree branch and stripped.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2025

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

From Slate • Oct. 24, 2024

Whatever it is studio technicians do seated at those knobby soundboards, Payne achieves with acting and characterization.

From New York Times • Oct. 26, 2023

The spike proteins, which form the knobby protrusions coming off the main body of the virus, are like a key that the virus uses to unlock our cells, which is how a new infection begins.

From Salon • Sep. 14, 2023

He had skinny, sunburned legs and knobby knees.

From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green