knobby

Example Sentences

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

From Slate • Oct. 24, 2024

On a recent drive north of Sacramento, I spotted a row of knobby peaks that looked more like a children’s book illustration than real-life mountains.

From New York Times • Mar. 21, 2024

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

She neared what had been a promising colony of knobby brain coral, tiny and dome-shaped with undulating ridges.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2023

“It looked just the way it does now. A clearing, lots of sunshine, that big tree with all those knobby roots. We stopped and everyone took a drink, even the horse.”

From "Tuck Everlasting" by Natalie Babbit