knuckly
- a word derived from knuckle.
Example Sentences
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The peel falls from her large knuckly hands in a long pale spiral.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
She has big hands, knuckly and red from the wash.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
“That one, brother, he bite,” she said, pointing her knuckly hand at a small tree he was wresting from his garden plot.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
Everyone tiptoed around her mother, who had become a stranger, thin and knuckly and severe.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
She has the same knuckly red hands, the same metal-rimmed glasses, the same hair crown as Mrs. Smeath, only hers is all gray, and the hairs on her face are gray too and more numerous.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
