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  • noun Plural form of nook.

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Examples

  • A glass door beckons and a busy, colorful office, lit up by sunlight in nooks and corners, greets you.

    India's Atul Ruia T. Surendar 2010

  • A glass door beckons and a busy, colorful office, lit up by sunlight in nooks and corners, greets you.

    India's Atul Ruia T. Surendar 2010

  • We must be quite talented at stowing things in nooks and crannies.

    Unpacking Is a Drag 2005

  • With typical competence, the site managers at Kellogg Brown & Root quickly found emergency accommodations for the hotel residents in nooks and crannies throughout the Green Zone.

    Welcome to the Green Zone 2004

  • With typical competence, the site managers at Kellogg Brown & Root quickly found emergency accommodations for the hotel residents in nooks and crannies throughout the Green Zone.

    Welcome to the Green Zone 2004

  • If it's sand, though, we're already too small; sand is bumpier; our measuring stick bogs down in nooks and crannies.

    Rethinking the Early Shelley 1997

  • They looked behind pillars and pews, in nooks and corners, the old grumbling sexton joining the search.

    A Day on Skates: The Story of a Dutch Picnic 1934

  • Professional writers, found in nooks and recesses of prominent thoroughfares, are interesting personalities.

    Nellie Bly's Book: Around the World in Seventy-Two Days 1890

  • The sweet-flag was just showing its green blades above the water, and here and there, in nooks, there were yellow cowslips reflecting their bright gold faces in the dark water.

    Oldtown Folks 1869

  • Millie’s collection of Santa’s, (many of them purchased during the couple’s extensive travels, and each one with a story about it’s procurement) is artfully arranged in nooks and crannies throughout the rooms.

    2008 December « Becca’s Byline 2008

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