knuckle

An early riser who starts many mornings with knuckle push-ups and stair climbing, Foran, 65, is often at the office by 6 a.m.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

Then Rushing again ambushed the first pitch — a knuckle curve on the inside edge — and drove it off the right-field wall.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026

This kit includes everything you need to make eight luxurious rolls: two pounds of Maine knuckle and claw meat, eight open-top buns, a half-pint of lemony mayo, and the butter to toast the rolls in.

From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2025

"Guys, I just got poked knuckle deep in the eyeball. Why are you booing? I can't see," said a crestfallen Aspinall.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2025

He brought a bruised knuckle to his lips and began to suck on it, pacing the short length of the room.

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken

"He's getting frustrated. He had a great chance in the previous frame and didn't convert. Those knuckles will be sore, let me tell you."

From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2026

Mr. Ferguson seems less concerned now that the FTC is using its knuckles to chill private speech.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026

The gloves are weathered and white, their brightness dulled by the decades, with the brand name “reusch” across the knuckles and a big, plum-colored sun on top.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2026

“Fingers bruised from lifting boxes on the warehouse floor, palms calloused from delivery bike handlebars, knuckles scarred with kitchen burns: These are not hands that have been allowed to hold power,” he said.

From Salon ● Nov. 6, 2025

He is boohooing loudly, wiping his eyes with his knuckles.

From "Shine!" by J.J. and Chris Grabenstein

They did so, as Smith and Lawrence knuckled down to add 105 from 31 overs in the morning session.

From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2026

Yet, when faced with adversity, Adams never knuckled up for any fights on principle, choosing only to take the easiest and most comfortable way out.

From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2025

I only knuckled down on him 10 jumps from the wire because there was somebody above the wire in the starter’s stand.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2023

When it came, he read the puck and deflected it with the shaft of his stick, then watched as it knuckled past Shesterkin to make it 1-0 at 4:25.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 25, 2023

Bucky caught my neck in the crook of his elbow and knuckled my hair.

From "The Rock and the River" by Kekla Magoon

Writing for the Sun on Sunday, Starmer described the strategy as "the most ambitious yet honest delivery plan in a generation" as the government was "knuckling down" on delivering its election promises.

From BBC ● Dec. 1, 2024

Fowler scored his career-best 43rd point with a goal in the first period on a knuckling shot that threaded a path among three Anaheim teammates.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 24, 2023

But later, Kuemper used his blocker to bat away a knuckling puck from Hall during four-on-four play early in the third.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 11, 2023

Hyman scored his second of the night and 11th overall on a 4-on-2 rush, sending a knuckling shot off a Draisaitl set-up past Francouz at 3:55 for a 4-2 lead.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 6, 2022

His curveball wasn’t curving, his sinker wasn’t sinking, his knuckler wasn’t knuckling.

From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli