Sentence examples for nub and from inspiring English sources

Szpakowski's cigarette had burned down to a nub and smoke was streaming into his eyes.

But in the percussive nub and tangled undergrowth of his playing, and in his penchant for provocation, Mr. Shipp is finding success on his own terms.

My parents hurried up onto the platform behind the booth, a raised nub, and squished themselves against the booth's metal side.

Web sites are simply not touchy-feely: customers still want to bounce on the mattress, caress the nub and otherwise feel the product.

Sometimes his accompanying music has been no more than a slender folkish nub, and if he's joking, he won't let you in on the joke.

"Waist Deep," directed by Vondie Curtis Hall, is unapologetically a B movie, its narrative premise whittled down to a mean little nub and placed carefully on the borderline between the wildly implausible and the completely absurd.

Finally, the talk turned to seams and stitching, to nubs and molded plastic, with a good dose of unions and replacement referees and career-ending injuries thrown in.

But, as I stared into the impossible landscape of ripples and nubs and shadows in Nate's torso, Jacob said, "Look into his torso and find a new form, another shape to draw.

SPECIAL POST — The big boards have been packed up, the pencils are worn down to nubs, and once again, Dan Feyer is the fastest crossword puzzle solver on the planet.

We're all here because the insipid tedium of raising children has worn us down to nubs, and getting cold­-cocked in the jaw is the only thing left that can make us feel alive again.

But it is in the details of cultural relics like Gone With the Wind, preserved here in the name of nostalgia, that the nubs and seeds of a resilient bigotry pass from one era into another.