Sentence examples for last nub from inspiring English sources
The girls of slender means keep a careful accounting of their assets, from their faces to the last nub of rationed soap.
If she did not get out of the grip of the current, it would sweep her past that last little nub of the continent and out to sea.
The competence of banks in performing their key role in credit evaluation is under the spotlight, which has led to an emerging consensus on the need for more sophisticated macroprudential supervisionThe last point is the nub.
So what – and at last we get to the nub – is a wazzock?
The NUB has a purpose at last.
Scientists expect the remaining nub of Larsen B and C, the last section of the shelf, to fall apart in the coming years.
That last room takes life (and afterlife) right down to the nub.
But that is the nub of the story: this fellow is the last of a breed, defiantly homeless, snipping wire fences on the principle that nobody should be hemmed in, and riding on through.
It was good news indeed that the reputation of the United States can be so remarkably rehabilitated after the last eight years that have worn even us Americans down to the nub of wondering if we had a democracy left.
He forages for kindling: twigs, wine corks, spent candle nubs, waxed cardboard boxes, leftover logs from the last fire and even small chunks of Duraflame.
The moment of triumph usually comes in northern Maine, when those hardy travelers -- days away from their last shower, bone-tired and rail-thin, their hiking boots worn to a nub -- reach the top of windy Mount Katahdin, look down on the verdant wilderness below and say to themselves: "Finally.
