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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How about a girl dinner with that leftover nub of cheese?
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Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 12 June 2025
Issue 10, the one with the pen nubs, was a lot like the typewriter approach.
—Kei Lim
june 9, Literary Hub, 9 June 2025
Fernanda sucked on the little nub of the spliff and then ground it into the cathedral step with her boot.
—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
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Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 12 June 2025
Issue 10, the one with the pen nubs, was a lot like the typewriter approach.
—Kei Lim
june 9, Literary Hub, 9 June 2025
Fernanda sucked on the little nub of the spliff and then ground it into the cathedral step with her boot.
—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
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“Nub.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nub. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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nub
noun1
2
: the main point of a matter
the nub of the story
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