knobby
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He fidgets with a pair of eyeglasses and points a knobby index finger to underscore a point, jiggles his leg restlessly and, at one point, mimes playing guitar.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
“That’s good,” he said, before pointing a knobby finger at me.
From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2024
The tree has the look of an ancient thing — knobby and gnarled and thick, so thick and tall it appeared at times like several oaks stacked on top of one another.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2024
The spike proteins, which form the knobby protrusions coming off the main body of the virus, are like a key that the virus uses to unlock our cells, which is how a new infection begins.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2023
Shriveled with age, she clutched the rope in bony hands with knobby knuckles.
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
He says that the horn-encrusted brow of T. imperator consisted of spindle-shaped lumps while T. rex’s horns were knobbier.
From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2022
He looked larger and knobbier than ever and, if anything, more embarrassed.
From At Good Old Siwash by Fitch, George
The Martian was a twisting, squirming, raging, biting, clawing, kicking wild tangle of knobby knees and knobbier elbows.
From The Next Time We Die by Williams, Robert Moore
With an unerring eye the vendor pounced on the smallest and knobbiest apple in the tray and offered that.
From The Deaves Affair by Footner, Hulbert
