Sentence examples for some knob from inspiring English sources

Wrapped up within are some knob gags and swipes at estate agents but even the more obvious and down-to-earth subject matter benefits from the tension or friction that Watson works up.

They had to get up, and walk the twelve feet to the television set, turn some knob, and repeat this process until they found something worth viewing (most likely a commercial celebrating our addiction to nicotine and alcohol).

You get quite enough knocks in her profession, without lying awake worrying that you're not good enough for some knob-head with a little power on a TV show.

Some knobs are marked in crimson: Do Not Touch.

Some knobs provide large changes and some not so many, but they are all usually additive.

Then the doors shut, an experimenter twiddled some knobs and the first box buzzed.

And then farther over to the left, there are some knobs for changing the frequency of the carrier signal.

"Someone's head goes into it, I adjust some knobs, and you see the person age pretty quickly.

A visitor inserted a quarter, twirled some knobs, and had the sensation, partly real, of producing, with his ignorant hands, a marvellously unholy barrage of noise.

Disposal wells are generally simple structures: there may be trucks full of water parked nearby, and a typical wellhead is little more than a tank connected to a pump, with some knobs and a few meters visible.

Here's how one of the more common methods, catalytic chemical vapor deposition (CVD), works: pump a carbon-containing gas into a reactor, add a metal catalyst, turn some knobs to heat it to 500 to 1,200 ˚C, and wait about 10 minutes for nanotube forests to grow.