How to use knob in a sentence

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• Just a little louder please—turn that knob a hair to the right.From the entry hair
• If the machine is really broken, noodling with the knobs is not going to fix it.From the entry noodle
• If you don’t turn the knob just so, the door won’t open.From the entry just so
• Be careful your dress doesn't catch on that knob.From the entry catch
• Those brass knobs and their hollow counterparts interlock perfectly.From the entry counterpart
• Do not make such haphazard changes to the settings; instead, adjust the knobs carefully, a bit at a time.From the entry haphazard
• The bacteriologist adjusted the focussing knob on the microscope.From the entry focussing
• And the same to you with knobs on!From the entry with knobs on
• Also, I should ask about what the turny knob tool was, when I got time.2019, Richard Roberts, A Rag Doll's Guide to Here and There. From the entry turny
• Once done, simply insert your stove knobs, and you're almost ready!2016, Courtney Sanchez, “Retro Stove”, in DIY Box Creations: Fun and Creative Projects to Make out of Really Big Boxes!, Lake Forest…. From the entry asterisk
• The two secondary controls are the trombone handle and the focus knob.2013, Harry Box, Set Lighting Technician's Handbook, page 480. From the entry trombone
• A threaded screw assembly inside the knob prevents either the overwrapping or underwrapping of the IABP.2012, C. Perret, Jean-Louis Vincent, Acute Heart Failure, →ISBN, page 377. From the entry underwrapping
• You can change one knob, or two, or all of them.2011 November 7, Boomerang® E-155 Chorus*Delay Pedal: User’s Manual, Grapevine, Tex.: Boomerang Musical Products, page 6. From the entry whatever butters your bread
• Just before he turned the knob, he spun around to give me a quick hug.2007, Wendy French, Full of It, New York, NY: Forge Books, →ISBN, page unknown. From the entry touchy-feeler
• To adjust the back tension required a similar unchairing to get at the knob behind.2007, Henry Petroski, Small Things Considered: Why There Is No Perfect Design, page 159. From the entry unchair
• Also, the degree of knobbing was too great for the size of the shell.2005, T.E. Greene, Worlds Spinning Round: Part 1: Discoveries, page 453. From the entry knobbing
• The red washed out quickly, but left splotches, so I look like a knob.2004 March 9, The Avocado Avenger [Stacia], “ATTn STACIA: re HAre”, in alt.religion.kibology (Usenet), archived from the original on 16…. From the entry haircuttery
• Drunk oil boomers or drunk cowboys mighta scobbed your knob many a time without that gun.1989, Larry L. King, The Night Hank Williams Died, page 113. From the entry scob someone's knob
• This bowl has the same knobbing as the bowls of Group I.1981, Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins, page 25. From the entry knobbing
• If you're a dedicated knob twiddler what follows can hold no pleasure for you.1964 July 16, New Scientist, page 148. From the entry knob-twiddler
• The crossbar is decorated either with a flat knob or with a Persian merlon.1949, N. P. Toll, “Fibulae”, in Teresa G. Frisch, N. P. Toll, edited by M[ikhail] I[vanovich] Rostoftzeff, A. R. Bellinger, F. E. Brown…. From the entry fibula
• For example, hardware on doors was discarded, and stock wood knobs and snuggers were used.1944, Pencil Points - Volume 26, Part 1, page 39. From the entry snugger
• Nick walked over and touched the brass knob, looked over his shoulder as if Judah may be watching from the doorway.2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 28, in Nick, New York; Boston; London: Little, Brown and Company, page 150. From the entry look over one's shoulder
• Our images were of miniscule fish-eyed creatures, with knobs and protrusions, the kind we had seen in biology books.2019, Felicia Rosshandler, Landing in New York: Memoir Stories, →ISBN. From the entry fish-eyed
• She tried the door knob and found it locked.2017, Judith Arnold, Kick The Bucket: A Lainie Lovett Mystery, Judith Arnold, →ISBN. From the entry finagle
• Applying a force tangential to the knob is essentially equivalent to applying one perpendicular to a radial line defining the lever.2012 March, Henry Petroski, “Opening Doors”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, pages 112–3. From the entry perpendicular
• Move the expression pedal to the heel down position and set the six knobs any way you like.2011 November 7, Boomerang® E-155 Chorus*Delay Pedal: User’s Manual, Grapevine, Tex.: Boomerang Musical Products, page 6. From the entry whatever butters your bread
• He would rest the bat on his shoulder while thrusting the bat knob back and forth toward the strike zone.2010 May, Gar Ryness [i.e., George A. Ryness IV]; Caleb Dewart, “Cal Ripken Jr.”, in Batting Stance Guy: A Love Letter to Baseball, 1st…. From the entry stance
• The woman’s knees were swollen, misshapen knobs of bone.2010, Bruce Macbain, Roman Games, Poisoned Pen Press, →ISBN, page 181. From the entry potioner
• But long live the spirit of the amateur cameraman, the solo recording engineer, and the lonesome knob twiddler.2005, David Kettle, Elephant Gnosis, →ISBN, page 173. From the entry knob-twiddler
• And he don't say thank you, I'll scob his knob.2005, Sonny Brewer, The Poet of Tolstoy Park, page 59. From the entry scob someone's knob
• I pull the sleeping bag over my head and curl my body around knobs of rock and tussocks of blueberries.2004, Field & Stream, volume 108, number 11, page 83. From the entry miles of bad road
• The barrier protected this knob of native Hawaiian forest, which continues to rise above the surreal lavascape around it.2003, Jeff Greenwald, “Oases in Black”, in Islands Magazine, January-February 2003. From the entry lavascape
• Unconscious of their bulging eyes, he pounded on the door of the mayor's house with the knob of his ashplant.2001, Carol Kendall, Erik Blegvad, The Gammage Cup: A Novel of the Minnipins, page 221. From the entry ashplant
• Then a knob of margarine had to be slanced out of the kitchen to grease the wheels and bearings.1988, Bill Naughton, Spit Nolan. From the entry slance
• You remember the necker's knob on your high school jalopy?1963, Herbert Gold, Salt: A Novel, Dial Press, page 246. From the entry necker's knob

Meaning of knob

1. noun A rounded protuberance, especially one arising from a flat surface; a fleshy lump or caruncle.
2. noun A rounded control switch that can be turned on its axis, designed to be operated by the fingers.
3. noun A ball-shaped part of a handle, lever, etc., designed to be grabbed by the hand.

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Questions about knob in a sentence

How do you use knob in a sentence?

Knob is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Just a little louder please—turn that knob a hair to the right.”

What is a short sentence with knob?

“Answer me, knob!”

What does knob mean?

Knob means a rounded protuberance, especially one arising from a flat surface; a fleshy lump or caruncle.