Examples of nub in a Sentence
The dog chewed his bone down to a nub.
The shoes have little nubs on the bottom that prevent you from slipping.
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Fernanda sucked on the little nub of the spliff and then ground it into the cathedral step with her boot.
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Lillian Fishman, New Yorker, 4 May 2025
These are impressively distant origins for a little nub of matter that could easily blow a hole in a billion-dollar satellite.
—IEEE Spectrum, 31 Mar. 2010
The wooden handles have dips and nubs that fit the hand just right.
—Celia Shatzman, Forbes.com, 2 Apr. 2025
And, just as with the first twister, a small nub started dropping and circulating from the wall cloud, but was shaped more like a stout stovepipe.
—Jim Clash, Forbes.com, 27 Apr. 2025
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Lillian Fishman, New Yorker, 4 May 2025
These are impressively distant origins for a little nub of matter that could easily blow a hole in a billion-dollar satellite.
—IEEE Spectrum, 31 Mar. 2010
The wooden handles have dips and nubs that fit the hand just right.
—Celia Shatzman, Forbes.com, 2 Apr. 2025
And, just as with the first twister, a small nub started dropping and circulating from the wall cloud, but was shaped more like a stout stovepipe.
—Jim Clash, Forbes.com, 27 Apr. 2025
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“Nub.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nub. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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nub
noun1
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: the main point of a matter
the nub of the story
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