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Origin of 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 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
There were knobby little bumps all over their heads, whichever way they turned on their pillows.
From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
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
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 Robert Moore Williams
He looked larger and knobbier than ever and, if anything, more embarrassed.
From At Good Old Siwash by George Fitch
With an unerring eye the vendor pounced on the smallest and knobbiest apple in the tray and offered that.
From The Deaves Affair by Hulbert Footner
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