Example Sentences

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Arya thought they looked like some old man's gnarled, knuckly fingers groping after a passing cloud.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

She has big hands, knuckly and red from the wash.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

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

Everyone tiptoed around her mother, who had become a stranger, thin and knuckly and severe.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“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