knuckles

Example Sentences

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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

Mr Teller said the name was also inspired by the distinctive pale "knuckles" on the small leg-like appendages at the side of the spider's mouth.

From BBC • Oct. 30, 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

I grabbed his hairy knuckles and lifted up his arm.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas