Example Sentences

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She would run her fingers along the pointed nubs of the beans — almost like someone would press prayer beads between their fingertips — and stare at the black-eyed Susans coming up in her backyard.

From Salon • Sep. 4, 2023

From specks the size of dust grains to nubs as big as raisins, the farm produces about 1,000 pounds of seeds a year.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 18, 2023

Now both colonies — which had slowly spread, with tiny nubs reaching toward filtering sunlight — were being damaged as water temperatures spiked.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2023

Acting on a hunch that it was the rabbits gnawing the fruits to their nubs, the scientists trained three infrared camera traps on B. yuwanensis fruit bundles in January 2021.

From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2023

Rose and I used to pluck the nubs out while talking about our boy problems.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan