knotty
Example Sentences
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I drag my garbage bag across the backyard and underneath the maple tree with thick leaves and knotty roots.
From Literature
As I part the curtains, early-morning sun spills through the window, spreading warm light across the knotty plank floor.
From Literature
What Thompson-Hernández’s art so easily dispels, no matter the genre it finds a home in, are all the knotty, misguided and trite representations of otherness in our contemporary world.
From Los Angeles Times
Of course, as with any knotty academic question, there are anomalies.
From BBC
Questions around pediatric use, Ms. Donnellan recognizes, are knotty: How do we balance the “significant health damage” caused by excess weight in childhood with the risks of committing children to long-term drug therapy?
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
