knob

Example Sentences

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Knob throwing is set for a comeback in Dorset after the popular festival was scrapped because it had become too big.

From BBC • Feb. 18, 2024

In a full embrace of the singer, civil leaders erected a statue of Bennett outside the Fairmont Hotel atop Knob Hill as a 90th birthday present.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 21, 2023

Carroll Franklin Cooley was born on Aug. 25, 1935, in Bald Knob, Ark. With the Great Depression luring people west for opportunities, he soon moved with his family to Phoenix.

From New York Times • Jun. 8, 2023

Red Knob Farm, a dairy operation a few miles north of the Maryland state line, is home to more than 1,500 cows, so there was that odor to contend with, of course.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 27, 2023

Most of them had known Carl Heine, a salmon gill- netter with a wife and three children, who was buried now in the Lutheran cemetery up on Indian Knob Hill.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson