(1) The nubby , shark's-fin radio aerial on the roof is the give-away: the A6 is a kind of racing saloon, a coupe with nothing cut off.

(2) Frieze is a nubby twisted pile, it's less formal looking but will wear well.

(3) Cut fresh, nonflowering soft stem tips just below a leaf node (the nubby joint where the leaves attach to the stem) anytime during summer; about four inches is good.

(4) The spinach and arugula salad is dressed with fragrant rosemary oil and tossed with hickory nuts and a forest floor's worth of nubby , exotic mushrooms, and further bejeweled with a spoonful of very young, very fresh chèvre.

(5) Berber is a little harder to sew than fleece, but it is also a little warmer, because it traps air in the nubby surface, thereby insulating the wearer.

(6) Many children have blankets, or a favorite nubby stuffed animal that they like to keep near them for security.

(7) Fruit is borne on spurs, 1-to 3-inch nubby twigs, on 2-to 6-year-old branches.

(8) Suddenly those nubby little ends of pine branches that collect in the corners of tent floors are all over the place.

(9) It is like a nubby silk shantung, this culture thing.

(10) This substance was composed of strips cut from stalks of the papyrus reed, which were dried, laid across each other crosswise, and glued together to form a somewhat nubby writing surface.

(11) His head was shaved bald, with four nubby horns on the top.

(12) Stand under steaming hot water and rub your entire body with a loofah or a nubby washcloth.

(13) ACG also is offering denim blended with hemp and linen, as well as a pure cotton denim with a nubby fill that creates the look of a nubby hemp.

(14) You've likely seen fresh ginger in the grocery store: a tan-brown and nubby root, lying in baskets in the cooler section of the produce department.

(15) Her fabrication ranges from rich tweed with nubby (yet soft to the touch) textures, silk crêpe, georgette, satin and various (heavy to light) jerseys.

(16) The thing is white, in high contrast to his nubby teeth, and he maneuvers it around his mouth.

(17) Rubin designed the stylish, quasi-industrial new bakery, with its double-height plate-glass windows, down to the nubby recycled-cardboard dishware.

(18) He was a balding, buck-toothed and sweaty short man, and thank God I only had to see his odorous nubby head twice before the drugs started working.

(19) Her people have beady round eyes and nubby , square teeth, and tend to look startled, with O-shaped mouths gaping wide.

(20) In one corner, swatches of nubby , charcoal gray carpet roll through a glue machine that coats them with liquid adhesive so they can be affixed to the finished containers.

(21) Lopsided she smiled as she wrapped masking tape around her hand to snatch naps from the nubby lemon sleeves.

(22) His button eyes, his nubby fur, his watch-collar - he may not be the spiffiest dog on the block, but for Pets.com it was love at first sight.

(23) Chinchilla cloth is a heavy, spongy woolen overcoat fabric with a long nap that has been rubbed into a curly, nubby finish.

(24) Features include a nubby texture in the fabric and black pearl buttons.

(25) The thread that unravels from this cocoon is tangled and nubby , thus producing the texture of the doupioni.

(26) The night before, Brandon and I had hovered together over a flour-dusted counter, turning tiny lumps of pasta dough into rough, nubby spirals.

(27) The aspiring journalists and politicos go in for the Men's Wearhouse look: The shiny wool-blend kind worn with a nubby polyester tie, belt below the gut.

(28) A smartly cut, nubby grey dress is finished off with a flirty feathery hemline, while a fabulous brown flared skirt got a lift from a spray of guinea hen feathers.

(29) Typical Bowmore suppleness but a tannic astringency cuts into its usual velvety texture and turns it into nubbly silk.

(30) Our cat never scratches the couch and only focuses on the chair, I assume because it's more satisfying to have his claws stuck in the nubbly fabric.