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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
Celeriac — the knobby, subterranean root of the celery plant — makes an especially luxurious purée after a simmer in stock and dairy.
From Salon ● May 16, 2025
“That’s good,” he said, before pointing a knobby finger at me.
From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2024
On a recent drive north of Sacramento, I spotted a row of knobby peaks that looked more like a children’s book illustration than real-life mountains.
From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2024
She saw cloth bags in knobby mounds; they looked like gnomes but were not gnomes.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
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
He looked larger and knobbier than ever and, if anything, more embarrassed.
From At Good Old Siwash by Fitch, George
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 Williams, Robert Moore
With an unerring eye the vendor pounced on the smallest and knobbiest apple in the tray and offered that.
From The Deaves Affair by Footner, Hulbert
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