Sentence examples similar to is a nub from inspiring English sources

In addition, there is a nub-type human zone that is located in the border region between human and mouse territories and also is surrounded by white lattice points.

In navy parlance he was a NUB – a Non-Useful Body.

Similarly, although Lord Howell was – fairly – ridiculed for suggesting that exploration be confined to the "desolate" north, there was a nub of sense behind his crass phrasing.

There's a nub of guilt at the core of the History Boys, as if Alan Bennett were slightly embarrassed to be revealing the secret of sneaking into the temple of academe via the tradesman's entrance.

Here's a nub point from Professor Twomey: While some form of deal or arrangement has been common in recent decades, largely to booster the claim of one side or the other to form a government, it is not constitutionally necessary.

This is going to result in people thinking you're a nub, and you won't be liked as much Be friendly.

On the delicate rod tip is a braided nub onto which the leader is tied, usually a rod's length of furled monofilament and tippet.

Stretching barely past the surf from its Boardwalk spot across from the gaudy Taj Mahal casino hotel just beyond Pennsylvania Avenue, Steel Pier is but a nub of its former self, a mere gangplank that once marched proudly on giant pillars nearly 2,000 feet out to sea.

"I saw him and I was like – look at me; I'm a squishy nub of man-pleasing tactics.

To confirm that the elevated β-gal reporter staining is a consequence of the nub 1 mutation, we used RNA interference (RNAi) to down-regulate nub transcript and protein.

So what – and at last we get to the nub – is a wazzock?