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Example Sentences
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It was three shoeboxes high, with nobs, buttons, and digital readings.
From The Verge • Nov. 19, 2019
Our house has no door handles or nobs on any exterior door.
From New York Times • Jun. 11, 2014
"The toffs are toffier and the nobs are nobbier," said one of these well-informed sources with a wink and a mysterious hitch of a tweedy shoulder.
From The Guardian • Jun. 20, 2012
Meanwhile at Churchill Downs, the nobs will be drinking $1,000 juleps made with Woodford Reserve, "The Official Bourbon of the Kentucky Derby."
From Slate • May 4, 2012
I was happier on the lawns because I had on shoes from England with rubber nobs on the soles that bit into the soft ground.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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