How To Use Knobbly In A Sentence
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Next to them are strange, knobbly bits of ginger dug from Chinese soil.
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The pink, slightly knobbly skin of this species of seahorse has been rather unkindly, but accurately, compared to that of a plucked chicken.
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The morning market in the Via Maestra is packed with stalls selling the knobbly tubers, graded in boxes according to size and quality.
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These knobbly, metallic-looking fossils were turned into a mixture of dilute sulphuric acid and dissolved copperas using a dangerous, complicated and highly noxious industrial process.
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The knobbly bits on your upper shin, just below the knee cap, are called your tibial tuberosities, and there are muscles attached to them.
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With a smouldering disdain which could quickly turn to bloody-mindedness, the rams kept their composure, even though the odd knobbly bits on their foreheads were all that remained of horns and pride.
Country diary: Wenlock Edge
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He is 51, a barrel of a man, good-looking in spite of his large, bulging eyes, a furrowed brow, something that is not quite a beard and a rather knobbly nose.
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Control of the comedy's timing is now in the hands of an editor, and few editors are as funny as Buster Keaton in a bearskin wielding a knobbly club.
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had knobbly knees
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The new (nearly new) car wouldn't take the snow chains and I wished, for the first time in years, for a 4x4 and vowed to get a pair of old wheels with knobbly treads.
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The fruit itself, which is knobbly and bitter, is used for its acrid juice, but the leaves are a more common ingredient.
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Over 1,000 riders are expected in the Tweed Valley to tackle courses of 55 km, 75 km or 100 km - a very tough slog off road and with knobbly tyres.
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She was very pale and was so thin that her teeny-tiny little dress had nothing to cling to; it just fell directly from her knobbly shoulders to her knobbly knees.
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Finally, cross legs at the ankle to hide any knobbly knees and limit dangers of a cankle.
The Sun
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I had the lisping problem, the asthma, braces… I was skinny and gangly with knobbly elbows and knees, and I hadn't grown into my hands or feet yet.
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She has not trodden the stone paths, knobbly like elephants' knees.
A Fossil With Flesh
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Like us, other guests had hauled their summer clothing out of the cellar, and they paraded around the restaurant, revealing their white legs and knobbly knees.
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I donned the shorts to expose white knobbly knees, put on my peaked cap and shades and rounded off the ensemble with the rucksack.
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According to WIkipedia a "nodule" can be: "a small knobbly rock or mineral cluster, such as a manganese nodule; a small aggregation of cells; a lesion similar to a papule; or Root nodule, an outgrowth formed on the roots of legumes that house symbiotic bacteria that fix atmospheric nitrogen and provide it to the plant in exchange for carbon.
NASA Watch: March 2009 Archives
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But the car went on, past the gray, knobbly walls of the old Castle, and stopped at an obscure door where the new part began.
CHARMED LIFE
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Disaster for consumers: EU to allow oddly curved cucumbers and "knobbly" carrots in supermarkets!
The Shotgun
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These small, knobbly skinned avocados from Guatemala are at their best at this time of year.
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Scriptwriters, directors and actors if they're any good know to leave enough of the knobbly bits of life in while reality shows don't seem to exercise the same restraint.
Philippa Warr: Why Reality Television Isn't Real
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There was one floor of all matching camping gear so dolly and you could hit the hay in cloned sleep sacks and pyjamas, and then get up, all cosy and co-ordinated, in farmyardy dungarees and cute knobbly lumberjack shirts.
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At the updated resorts, events such as knobbly knees competitions are distant memories.
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Harry had a thin face, knobbly knees, black hair and bright green eyes.
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Ask a greengrocer to get you a root of fresh horseradish, which looks like a dirty, knobbly parsnip.
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An 81 year old woman who had had a total knee replacement 26 years ago noticed painless, knobbly swellings on either side of the knee.
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I have a picture of a shrine in my head, all bedecked with knobbly candles and baroque festoonery, and anything less would be disappointing.
Interview and a Starred Review
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It was something to do with the knobbly knees, the way one leg would drag coyly behind the other, and the impression of Kelly having feet that headed in opposite directions.
Gerard Kelly obituary
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Room IV has a corner of fine melancholy rose- and blue-period Picassos, as well as a long wall of 11 Matisses in all the wrong colors and his knobbly bronze "Serf.
Souvenirs From Paris
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When you coast by these places at night, you can observe under every table cloth a set of eight knobbly candle-white knees dangling from voluminous bags of shorts, above which ample stomachs are coddled by familiar, comforting tuck.
Good morning, Melaque: one day in a small Mexico beach town
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A few appeared at the same time on both legs and were slightly raised but not 'knobbly', and not bad enough for her to want to stop wearing skirts.
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Glass-topped dining tables may appear to take up less space, but can look ugly when guests are seated (with knobbly knees visible).
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Pink fir apple potatoes are waxy, knobbly potatoes that are available from specialist food shops.
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Depending upon the quality of the wood that the bow was made from, it could be smooth and regular along its length, or quite knobbly where knots had to be accommodated in its design.
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They're rather odd looking - pink in colour and long and knobbly, but have a firm creamy texture and taste nutty.
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The fruit, as you say, is black, very knobbly and it's a bit like a sort of squat fig with a pointy bit at the end and very, very hard, almost stone-like.
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Now the knobbly white fungus is for sale in every tourist shop and on menus across the country.
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We had different kinds of encounters with four or five different types of treesome we gently brushed againstand then there was a more coercive meeting with a big banksia whose scaly, knobbly bark left a passage of black scales on the paper as if a huge reptile had passed over it.
Wildwood
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She was wearing a straightish dress of soft looking knobbly green tweed with a row of silver buttons from throat to hem.
For Kicks
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My favourite character was Lars' dad - a small, wizened Danish man who carried a knobbly walking stick and repeatedly stroked his long, white beard.