knuckle

"Obviously things change as you move on but we just want to knuckle down."

From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2026

This kit includes everything you need to make eight luxurious rolls: two pounds of Maine knuckle and claw meat, eight open-top buns, a half-pint of lemony mayo, and the butter to toast the rolls in.

From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2025

“This step up in tensions has created a white knuckle moment for the markets with tech stocks under major pressure,” Wedbush Securities analyst Dan Ives wrote to clients on Friday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2025

It scrapes the top of one knuckle, does a bit of a dive to the second knuckle … and then scoots along.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2025

Billy rubbed the mare’s flat forehead with his knuckle while she grunted with pleasure.

From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck

Mr. Ferguson seems less concerned now that the FTC is using its knuckles to chill private speech.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026

“Fingers bruised from lifting boxes on the warehouse floor, palms calloused from delivery bike handlebars, knuckles scarred with kitchen burns: These are not hands that have been allowed to hold power,” he said.

From Salon ● Nov. 6, 2025

Combatants try to get any edge they can in the contests, which can be painfully hard on the knuckles.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2025

The court's intervention highlighted the ECI's "procedural failures" and must be seen as a "rap on the knuckles", an editorial in the leading Hindu newspaper said.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2025

Nali shook her head and pressed her knuckles against her lips.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young

Yet, when faced with adversity, Adams never knuckled up for any fights on principle, choosing only to take the easiest and most comfortable way out.

From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2025

Grealish knuckled down after he and team-mate Phil Foden were warned about their conduct by Guardiola having been pictured on a night out in December 2021.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2025

When it came, he read the puck and deflected it with the shaft of his stick, then watched as it knuckled past Shesterkin to make it 1-0 at 4:25.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 25, 2023

Trout crushed a 111.8-mph missile to center field in that series that knuckled so viciously the ball sailed a good 10 feet over the head of Julio Rodríguez for a triple.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2022

Watching the bread, the neat gray hands, a broad gold band on the left forefinger, knuckled there by a blue knuckle.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner

Writing for the Sun on Sunday, Starmer described the strategy as "the most ambitious yet honest delivery plan in a generation" as the government was "knuckling down" on delivering its election promises.

From BBC ● Dec. 1, 2024

Fowler scored his career-best 43rd point with a goal in the first period on a knuckling shot that threaded a path among three Anaheim teammates.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 24, 2023

“Or I had people calling and saying, ‘I just need to talk with you because I’m white knuckling my way through things that I could do before the pandemic.’

From Washington Post ● Apr. 29, 2022

Her weekly “happy Monday!” texts started coming with handwashing tutorials, tips on knuckling vs. pushing elevator buttons, and advice that sounded ludicrous to me at the time: “avoid the general public.”

From Slate ● Mar. 23, 2020

He grimaced, knuckling the back of his thumb into his upper stomach.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee