knobby

Example Sentences

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“That’s good,” he said, before pointing a knobby finger at me.

From Slate • Oct. 24, 2024

Pepper X has been in the works since Currie last set the hottest pepper record in 2013 with the Carolina Reaper, a bright red knobby fruit with what aficionados call a scorpion tail.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 16, 2023

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

On foggy Bay Area mornings, I watch pale light break through the cloud cover and illuminate jewel-like droplets of water condensing on these knobby reeds.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 25, 2022

It looked, Alexander wrote, “like a charred, knobby broomstick.”

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand