Sentence examples for nub in from inspiring English sources

He gets to the nub in the end.

She opens it up to reveal a triangular peach mound with a small nub in the middle to suggest a nipple.

The penis of the Argentine lake duck can grow to sixteen inches — the biggest in the world relative to its body — but it shrinks to a nub in the winter, when the bird is courting a mate.

Even a little tiny nub in the middle of the flush-mounted buttons would make all the difference in the world.

For an idea of how long it takes to animate with this process, watch from 0 27 as three full candles burn down to the nub in the space of a few seconds.

How can you – the very you, that little nub in the centre of your head, that bundle of nerves and synapses that experiences everything as it does, that is reading this now, that is dictating the voice inside your head: how does that You, so central to who You are, not accept You? It's fucked up, man.

Every few months this process is repeated since the oat shoots are chewed down to nubs in no time.

While all of those large cactuses are most commonly seen in nurseries and plant shops as tiny nubs in petite terra-cotta pots, there are many rare, sought-after, mostly unknown species that never grow bigger than a nickel.

A new report from the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology offers many worthy ideas for improving science education, like creating a "master corps" of the nation's finest science teachers who would in turn train others; but the STEM word keeps thudding up its pages like so many gristle nubs in a turkey burger.

Lee came to prominence as a grinder in 2013 after implanting magnets into the cartilage nubs in front of his earholes that connected to a copper coil around his neck.

Firefly makes a special one with 2 nubs in the bottom to create a better more central spin due to having two contact points on the BB instead of one.