adjective
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Origin of knobby
Example Sentences
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Suddenly the muffin feels like it’s shrugging into a velvet robe and wool slippers, pausing at the window to take in a field of knobby pines.
From Salon • Dec. 16, 2025
“That’s good,” he said, before pointing a knobby finger at me.
From Slate • Oct. 24, 2024
The tree has the look of an ancient thing — knobby and gnarled and thick, so thick and tall it appeared at times like several oaks stacked on top of one another.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 2024
Whatever it is studio technicians do seated at those knobby soundboards, Payne achieves with acting and characterization.
From New York Times • Oct. 26, 2023
This close, Anya could see its knobby fingers with ragged fingernails jutting from the ends.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
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