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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Point Roberts is a 5-square-mile U.S. exclave whose only land connection lies in Canada, which supplies the unincorporated nub of American soil its water and electricity.—Dee-Ann Durbin and Sally Ho, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2025 The best Caesar dressing gets textural interest from cracks of peppercorn and nubs of Parmesan cheese.—Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 13 Feb. 2025 The pig’s mouth revealed its ordinary sharp, tusk-like canines saddled up beside smaller, slightly more human-looking teeth nubs.—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 7 Feb. 2025 Barely a nub of bald rock and surrounded by far more imposing cliffs, this broad perch is not a difficult climb and makes an exquisite viewing platform of the town and the changing colors of the rocks.—Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 18 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for nub
Word History
Etymology
alteration of English dialect knub, probably from Low German knubbe
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