knob

Example Sentences

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The boy on the fiddle turns a knob on an oversize boom box, cranks up the volume, and starts strumming.

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But as he reached for the knob, he froze, struck with a realization.

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There was perhaps an extra knob or two on the misshapen head, teeth were missing—but to that vast, kindly ugliness the beating had made no real difference at all.

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I wanted to twist the knobs on the radios and punch at the keys of the typewriters, but the admonishment from the counter girl downstairs made me keep my hands firmly clasped together.

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This house is too squat; I pictured Charles living in a ramshackle place a hundred years old, the type of location where knobs are always coming off bannisters in people’s hands.

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