How to Use "nub" with Example Sentences

1. The nub of the case was this question : " are isolated human genes and the comparison of their sequences patentable things ? "

2. The nub of this humorous piece was that when the young man came to ' call ' , he found to his astonishment that ' she had her hat on ' .

3. Indeed , the nub of many of the negative reviews is that , faced with the holocaust , mr tarantino avoids tricky moral issues .

4. Who doesn 't like to sneak a little nub of chocolate before bed to get that warm feeling inside ?

5. A study just published in the proceedings of the national academy of sciences may help resolve this question by getting to the nub of what is going on in a bilingual child 's brain , how a second language affects the way he thinks , and thus in what circumstances being bilingual may be helpful .