Sentence examples for to nub from inspiring English sources

The hounds seemed to believe this was a false alarm owed to Nub's youthful enthusiasm.

In contrast, only a single Pdm ortholog is present in the mosquito, and comparative protein analysis indicates that its sequence aligns more closely to Nub (Fig.  1b).

This relatively moderate level of nub-RD over-expression in a nub 1 mutant background (nub 1 ; UAS-nub-RD/hs-Gal4) was sufficient to reduce CecA1, Dipt, CecC and AttC expression levels by 50%to80%0% compared to nub 1 ; UAS-nub-RD/TM3 control flies, demonstrating that Nub-PD acts directly as a negative regulator of gene expression.

Editor Sebastián Sepúlveda cuts scenes to the nub, to the bare necessities, and then he assembles them like a coherent past/present/future jigsaw puzzle.

Every Kettle Chip you eat is another £50 note burnt to the nub to light another round of cigars at the top of the Shard.

Her nails were bitten to nubs.

I was grinding my teeth down to nubs.

Turnbull's teeth must be ground down to nubs by now.

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

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.

The constant grinding would be enough to quickly reduce most natural materials to nubs, but the limpets' teeth boast a tensile strength of between 3 and 6.5 GPa, researchers report.