nubbin

Example Sentences

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Using your fingers or a fork, mix it together well, forming small and larger crumble nubbins as you go.

From Washington Post

Garlic, parsley and Calabrian chiles, slick with olive oil, get caught among the larger nubbins, like pebbles in a brook.

From Seattle Times

There are also slightly different bits of plastic around the screen to minimize the size of the gap when closed — plus little nubbins to keep the two sides from clacking together too hard.

From The Verge

When we go out, we wear ourselves to a nubbin.

From New York Times

Chicken — rather, nubbins of chicken — make yet another appearance on a plate of gloppy pasta that’s the polar opposite of al dente and further degraded by a rumor of pesto.

From Washington Post