knobby

Example Sentences

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Striding forward, his sturdy right hand clutches a knobby wooden walking stick, cut from a tree branch and stripped.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2025

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

From Slate • Oct. 24, 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

He has large ears, knobby knees, a softly rounded belly and dark, soft eyes that see the world in blunt terms.

From New York Times • Nov. 17, 2022

She saw cloth bags in knobby mounds; they looked like gnomes but were not gnomes.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston