496 examples of knob in sentences
He tiptoed over the traitorous boards of the landing, and slowly turned the knob of a door in the end wall.
Tremblingly his finger pressed on the little white knob, and a silence like that of death fell on those who watched.
The little red-headed man grinned at me and set to work polishing the knob of the wheel-house door, and not until that minute did I realize that he had come along with us in the Kut Sang.
Petrak worked with a cloth on the brass-knob, and he was loafing without a doubt.
He grasped the knob and threw the door wide open.
Here it becomes enlarged into a knob-like formation composed of soft, growing cells, which knob-like formation fits over a vascular papilla projecting up in the bottom of the follicle.
Here it becomes enlarged into a knob-like formation composed of soft, growing cells, which knob-like formation fits over a vascular papilla projecting up in the bottom of the follicle.
Aldous was ahead of him, and stood with his hand on the knob.
There was a turning of the knob, and Izon came in.
Then there was a turning of a knob, a rustling of skirts, and a voice came sharp: "Where are you going?" Sally turned.
But before she could turn the knob the door was flung open by a kimonoed mulatto girl, her eyes all whites.
There was a knob of rock about seven feet down.
He was killed at Pilot Knob, Missouri.
The knob was tried, silently at first, then with greater force.
His gilt glasses were tilted forward so as to make an inflamed knob at the top of his long nose, and he regarded Mr. and Mrs. Lewisham over them withLewisham doubted his eyes for a momentbut it was positively a smile, an essentially waggish smile.
As she touched the bell-knob Constance sprang out to welcome her, though not to ask her intill she could have a word with her alone, the young wife explained.
They had taken a lunch and climbed Bald Knob, a thousand feet above the town, late in the afternoon.
But this afternoon, upon the still isolation of Bald Knob, there had been many kisses exchanged, and brave vows of undying love.
Ten years and ten thousand miles ... despite all that he had vowed on Bald Knob that Sunday so long ago, wouldn't you have said that was barrier enough?
Cromwell's nose looked almost like a knob of oak.
Dr. West said: "The new regiment on Pine Knob was recruited from the Bowery.
Walking quickly and softly across the floor to the private office, which opened off from the other end of the counter, the prospective partner of the business stooped down, turned the shining knob of the safe round until the right combination had been struck, and swung back the immense, massive door.
[ROGERS'S cosmos is fast slipping away: he crawls abjectly to the door: his hand on the knob, he turns once more a face of bewildered inquiry upon the VICAR, who snaps his fingers impatiently.]
Again, where even the fraction of a second's footing was out of the question, he would swing his body past by a moment's hand-grip on a jutting knob of rock, a crevice, or a precariously rooted shrub.
LEYDEN JAR, an electric condenser, a cylindrical glass bottle lined inside and outside with metal to within a short distance from the top, while a brass rod connected with the inside coating extends upward through a wooden stopper terminating in a knob.
