Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: nooks
IPA transcription: [n'ʊks]
Usage examples
  • I'll fetch thee brooks From spotted nooks, --
  • In these Wessex nooks the busy outsider's ancient times are only old; his old times are still new; his present is futurity.
  • The cones are from five to eight inches long and about as large in thickness; rich chocolate-brown in color and protected by strong, down-curving nooks which terminate the scales.
  • To cross the Andes on mule-back along the regular routes is a feat comparable to the feats of the energetic tourists who by thousands traverse the mule trails in out-of-the-way nooks of Switzerland.
  • In sheltered fence corners and nooks in the wood, the grass lifted new, green blades, and queer little Margaret Llewellen showed Nan where the first anemones and violets hid under last year's drifted leaves.