How To Use Knobbed In A Sentence
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There was nothing in the four feet wide gap but windowless knobbed doors spaced at even intervals; none of them had a label in which to portray the doors' purposes.
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The powerful eagles Spizaetus tyrannus, Morphnus guianensis and Harpia harpyja, the critically endangered blue knobbed curassow Crax alberti, six species of macaws Ara ambigua, A. militaris, A. ararauna, A. macao, A. chloroptera, and A. severa, among others.
Magdalena-Urabá moist forests
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We saw several tropical birds, which the sailors call boatswains, in consequence of their having one long feather for a tail, which they term a marlin-spike — an iron instrument sharp at one end and knobbed at the other, used in splicing ropes, etc.
A Sailor of King George
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Again, there was the insect house, where she lifted the blinds of the little cages, and marveled at the purple circles marked upon the rich tussore wings of some lately emerged and semi – conscious butterfly, or at caterpillars immobile like the knobbed twigs of a pale – skinned tree, or at slim green snakes stabbing the glass wall again and again with their flickering cleft tongues.
Night and Day, by Virginia Woolf
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Most of the shellfish remains in the Florida coast middens were oyster shells while shells of clams, knobbed whelks and periwinkles were present in lesser amounts.
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He paused, his knobbed fingers pulling out thread after thread.
Earl of Durkness
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Most of the shellfish remains in the Florida coast middens were oyster shells while shells of clams, knobbed whelks and periwinkles were present in lesser amounts.
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Michael reached into his satchel again and drew out the largest of the knobbed whelks his brother had given him.
The Sound Thief « A Fly in Amber
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The powerful eagles Spizaetus tyrannus, Morphnus guianensis and Harpia harpyja, the critically endangered blue knobbed curassow Crax alberti, six species of macaws Ara ambigua, A. militaris, A. ararauna, A. macao, A. chloroptera, and A. severa, among others.
Magdalena-Urabá moist forests
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Arrowhead types include those with round shoulders and a swollen tang as well as those with angular, slanting shoulders and bilaterally knobbed or spurred tangs.
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She died when she was seven, a skinny little girl with knobbed knees and a bucktoothed smile.
Miracles, Inc.
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Naked or thecate; stalked or not; _Acinetidæ_ tentacles numerous, usually knobbed and all alike
Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901
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From the presence of knobbed horns, I presumed the long-necked creature to be a stylized Asian representation of a giraffe.
'Shadow of the Cypress': History, mystery and Steinbeck
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Their instruments include long wooden drums, kettlegongs, knobbed gongs, cymbals, bamboo beaters, flutes, and buffalo horns.
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Any of various insects of the order Lepidoptera, characteristically having slender bodies, knobbed antennae, and four broad, usually colorful wings.
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In my family we have what some have called a perfect nose; straight, not too big or too small, not upturned or knobbed.
Big Nose, Little Nose, Young Nose, Blue Nose « Colleen Anderson
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Naked; athecate; tentacles _Dendrosomidæ_ numerous, all alike, knobbed and grouped in tufts.
Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901
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Knobbed terrets are known to have a generally northern distribution of Northern England and Scotland.
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a knobbed stick
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She died when she was seven, a skinny little girl with knobbed knees and a bucktoothed smile.
Miracles, Inc.
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Ascalaphus, with its resplendent wings, and slender, knobbed antennæ so much like those of butterflies, and visions of these beautiful insects fill his mind's eye; or sundry dun-colored caddis flies, modest, delicate neuroptera, with finely fringed wings and slender feelers, create doubts as to whether they are not really allies of the clothes moth, so close is the resemblance.
Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses
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Our surveys have shown that the state has over 180 species of resident birds including jabiru storks, 5 species of ibises (including the scarlet), most of Venezuela's herons, sungrebes, sunbitterns, yellow knobbed curassows, scarlet macaws, hoatzings and a great number of raptors.
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Here in Massachusetts it used to be you'd be up on charges and maybe find yourself in the stocks if you weren't in your assigned pew on Sunday. of course they'd bonk you on the head if you fell asleep during the sermon (with a special knobbed clonker!) and fine you if you didn't bring a loaded musket!
Are we a Christian Nation?
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There on the windowsill in his room were three shells, knobbed whelks, mementos of his older brother, who had been a fisherman.
The Sound Thief « A Fly in Amber
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A mandibular condyle is the knobbed ending of the lower jaw; it joins the lower jaw to the temporal bone of the skull on both sides of the head at the temporomandibular joint.