Sentence examples for knobs from inspiring English sources

Anyone who says this is anything less than a beguiling and brilliant theatrical reimagining of the possibilities of the live electro experience hasn't spent enough time staring at the shadows of two blokes behind a set of decks pretending to twiddle knobs to a backing tape for an hour.

Felix Krämer, the show's curator, identifies irregularities, for example, that create an almost surreal quality: a piano with two legs, table legs casting shadows in different directions, chests of drawers with no knobs or handles.

They twist and twiddle knobs and buttons all night, yet the music continues to fill the cavernous space even after they leave, one by one with a polite bow.

For example, the hands of paralysed patients have been stimulated to enable them to grasp and turn door knobs.

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But now the regulators have turned the "calibration" knobs sharply.

But they still shed spores and so are carriers.The spores can survive for months on virtually everything they touch: toilets, bedpans, bathroom floors, sheets, bed rails, call buttons, telephones and door-knobs.

Serves one Melt a knob of butter in a wide frying pan.

Just the brilliantly observed example of the way a knob – any knob – might flick a teabag.

Like everyone else, he had read the New Statesman interview in which Labour backbencher Simon Danczuk had called his leader an even posher and more out of touch knob than the prime minister; so sure enough, Danczuk was given his chance.

It's quite easy to be a knob, even if you're just making a cup of tea.