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    Use "stub" in a sentence

    stub example sentences

    stub


    stubbed


    stubbing


    stubs


    1. The girls finish their cigarettes and stub them out in the same neglected plant pot as before


    2. ate the slices out of Roman’s hand wagging his stub of a tail


    3. She put the lantern back on it’s hook, the stub of what had once been a small branch in the house trunk flanking the chimney


    4. one bulging muscle, from his oversized head to the tip of his stub tail


    5. The stub you gave me wore down to a


    6. �That's the same as the check stub for one Claude Benjamin Smith-Hughes


    7. He was surprised that when he turned over the check stub that he had kept concealed under the insole of his shoe, his B-4 bag was returned to him


    8. the water, but I was always careful wading out, so I didn’t stub my toe on a submerged rock I couldn’t see


    9. I spent all of Wednesday morning pouring over the legalese in four different preliminary versions of the new Doberman’s Stub recording contract


    10. There was nothing labeled Doberman’s Stub, but I found a folder named Tucker

    11. Doberman’s Stub was on the verge of being a headliner on the stadium circuit


    12. “What are the chances Doberman’s Stub can survive without Terry Tucker?”


    13. “In order for Doberman’s Stub to succeed without Terry, a few important things need to happen


    14. Do your best Milli Vanilli impression and Doberman’s Stub fans everywhere will be eternally grateful


    15. “Tonight on California Confidential … Could California be in for another recall election? … Is one of California’s top pro baseball players ready to come out of the closet … And our top story – Was Doberman’s Stub front-man, Terry Tucker, killed by a Southern California branch of the Russian Mafia? You’ll find out after these messages


    16. At the end of the set Nigel asked the audience, “What do you think? Should Doberman’s Stub try to carry on without Terry Tucker?”


    17. “The only way I know to do that is to talk openly and honestly about Cerise Record’s contract negotiations with Doberman’s Stub - past, present and future


    18. “I get the impression he felt he was playing a chess match with Terry and thought he was onto a winning strategy on how he could retain Doberman’s Stub at the time of Terry’s murder,” I said


    19. Vandevere managed to talk with one of the writers and found that Terry was in the process of selling a Doberman’s Stub song to be used in a custom home commercial


    20. I also pointed out that without the support of a new CD it would be unlikely that a concert promoter would advance Doberman’s Stub to stadium tour headliner, and may steer clear altogether if they got the impression they could be drawn into the lawsuit

    21. “We agreed that Doberman’s Stub would remain with Cerise Records, and they would receive a raise within a rather wide range, depending upon the reputation and quality of Mr


    22. “I saw you at the Dali Lama a couple of weeks ago and I told my boyfriend, ‘He sat at my station and asked a bunch of questions about Doberman’s Stub and now he’s playing with their band,’ it was pretty cool,” she said


    23. I was up most of last night after I came across an ad in a European music industry publication, pitching the newest Doberman’s Stub CD, Bite Me, Big Dog (working title)


    24. Nigel’s attorney might have considered the death penalty talk to be just so much sword rattling had it not been for the fact that Jack and Ian changed the home page of the Doberman’s Stub Official Web Site to ask fans to demand justice


    25. “It’s not very expensive and he never used it on stage, but Terry wrote all of his Doberman’s Stub songs on this guitar


    26. He’s giving the surviving members of Doberman’s Stub a great deal on the third CD, then releasing them from their contract


    27. She had hand-painted a cover that said, Doberman’s Stub Live at the Dali Lama Yo Mama


    28. “I think with a new singer and a better lead guitarist they could be the next Doberman’s Stub,” she said with a grin


    29. room, chewing on the stub of a cigar


    30. Dropping the box, the man leaped to his feet, flapping his arms and taking prodigious jumps to clear the arrow stub, like a startled ostrich with the gout

    31. ” She is nervously rubbing her thumb across the stub on her left hand, constantly reminding her of the price of disobedience


    32. Why not bet on him instead of those creeps?” She rubs the stub on her left hand, deciding, “I have to look out for myself


    33. The rat showed me the words as they sparkled and shined upon the stub


    34. ” You stub out the cigarette


    35. The young boy was killed last by the raider, whom Faris tried to stub yelling out unintelligible curses


    36. You have to grow into it, or course, continue to develop and mature, learn and expand, but that‘s where all the perks are; profound and abiding contentment, the ability to manifest desires and shape events, the ability to do less and accomplish more, find your true calling, connect with your higher self, never stub another toe, and so on


    37. fingernails and stub of a hand at the door


    38. Moments later I handed my boarding pass to another member of airport security who tore off the stub, returned the pass and waved me on


    39. In his hand, he’s holding a stub of a pencil, about one inch long


    40. stub; anything for a quick buck

    41. and a vestigial (stub looking) tail is present


    42. But these stumbling blocks are like child's building blocks compared to the one Fishmael has chosen; he has decided to stub his toe (in the process of kicking, but stub it nonetheless) against the infinite, the ineffable, the Fish of God


    43. time in less than a day, and stood staring at the stub of his


    44. After removing a pencil from his pocket, Wickland moved his hand toward the sunglasses, hoping to use the eraser on the short stub to adjust the item for better viewing and in doing so minimizing the risk of damaging any potential evidence


    45. “Were these your husband’s sunglasses?” He pointed to the sunglasses with the stub of a pencil


    46. ” He removed the stub of a pencil from the pocket of his overcoat and placed the point deep in the carpet so that the rest of the pencil protruded as an identification marker about two inches from where the object was located


    47. Wickland removed a stub of a pencil from his pocket and, inserting it under the flap, broke the seal on the envelope


    48. Henry thought that was pretty bad as he went around carrying on; swinging his little bloody tail stub in agitation


    49. A small (2 cm) stub, for instance, makes an effective fire starter in damp conditions, while dry candle wax is an excellent lubricant for zippers (and squeaking car fan belts)


    50. It butted Ben’s chest several times with its stub














































    1. With that he stubbed out his cigarette, walked away from the man in black


    2. I recoiled as images of a burning cigarette end being stubbed out on my bare legs played out in my head


    3. With that he stubbed out his cigarette, walked away from the man in black towards the front of his battered old car, and slammed shut the bonnet


    4. Russell came limping out of the bathroom, having stubbed his toe on the toilet in his haste to get out of the shower


    5. He stubbed out the cigarette, swilled out his mouth with the tea and crawled back to bed


    6. Ma stubbed her cigarette into the ashtray filled with the butts I always found disgusting


    7. He found the big roll top when he accidentally stubbed his toe


    8. She stubbed her cigarette out on the counter and flicked the butt away


    9. Joe stubbed his toe


    10. His anxiety reached fever pitch when he stubbed his toe and the nail fell off

    11. by the throat he simultaneously stubbed the other one (also in the throat) with the sharp stick he picked


    12. two men by the doors stubbed to death


    13. "No! No! No! A thousand times, no!" She hastily stubbed out the cigarette and ran to the bed to offer comfort and understanding to the Russian, but he escaped


    14. “Hey grumpy, you could do with a drink, maybe I should say- drinky you could do with a grump!” She stubbed out her cigarette with a look of amusement


    15. She leaned over to the clay dish on the floor and stubbed out her cigarette


    16. To recover, startled, we've stubbed our toes


    17. " Midge stubbed out her cigarette and grabbed up her purse


    18. " His fat little hands stubbed out at the surroundings


    19. Vinny stubbed his cigarette out then stood in the carpeted


    20. He tried to dig his fingers into the trunk, as she had done, but stubbed his

    21. upstairs downstairs capitol pleasures stubbed out something lovely


    22. State and had stubbed my toe, they would have pinned a medal on me?


    23. stubbed his foot on railroad tie, tripping, and falling hard to the ground


    24. Maiorescu stubbed out his cig, then lit up another


    25. Adjusted his glasses and stubbed out his smoke


    26. "Jesus!" Gerald stubbed out his cigar


    27. Uhhhh! Great, peering behind I stubbed a toe and tripped


    28. Brigit reached across him and stubbed out her cigarette in the ashtray


    29. ” Petra walked on as if she knew where she was headed and yelped when she stubbed her toe on a rock


    30. Even the fat bully had gotten bored of his cigarette and had for some reason stubbed it out on his test-paper

    31. "Don't talk nonsense!" said Sharon as she stubbed her cigarette out in the dish on the coffee table


    32. So he finished his second rum, stubbed out the cigar and drained the coffee


    33. She stubbed out her ciggie with a smug look on her face


    34. He stubbed his cigarette out in an ashtray and walked inside the pub


    35. He stubbed his cigarette out in the ashtray and lit another one


    36. He stubbed out the cigarette


    37. Smith stubbed out his cigarette and lit another


    38. marveling at all the things he mentioned, basking in the warmth of a perfect day, one that only a god could have created, until my new friend stubbed his toe on a tree root


    39. I stubbed my toe and cursed loudly, only to hear answering giggles from either side of the long hallway that separated the three bedrooms


    40. It’s like taking a pill for a stubbed toe that also cures the plague and grows back missing arms

    41. Lily took a final drag of her cigarette, and stubbed it out on the metal step


    42. She stubbed out the cigarette, the last one


    43. The secret cigarette stubbed out on the bricks of the patio


    44. ” In a nutshell, mindfulness is the ability to recognize what is happening in your mind right now—anger, jealousy, sadness, the pain of a stubbed toe, whatever—without getting carried away by it


    45. It was not too difficult for the hobbit, except when, in spite of all care, he stubbed his poor toes again, several times, on nasty jagged stones in the floor


    46. The Daily News reporter stubbed out his second cigarette that morning and put the ashtray back on the nightstand


    47. She was a nervous friend—smoked Harry’s recessed, filtered cigarettes but stubbed each one out only one-third smoked and lighted another, and she didn’t put them out, she crushed them, frayed the ends


    1. I had been pushed through one of them, stubbing my knee on a bare wooden frame


    2. along the short trek through the hallway to the bathroom, stubbing my toe on the


    3. was, slumped up to the counter, stubbing out the cigarette, then tossing it to the floor


    4. The ‘OW!’ was usually Daveda stepping on a cactus or stubbing her toe, which would


    5. And so the enemy was left in confusion, stubbing their already dead friend


    6. We came out of the tunnel and there before us was the whole Toltec nation, the hidden valley was exactly as Coatl had described it to me there was enough space in the valley bottom to accommodate four or five tribes and to see my people waiting for our entrance was a sight that almost brought tears to my eyes, we made our way down the valley towards the canopied dais that had been erected earlier, people bowed as we passed, at the dais the heap of captured weapons was very impressive, the captains from all the different settlements were waiting to report, I poured a drink for Coatl and myself we then sat to hear from the captains, Tulancingo’s report was very brief, twenty one enemy engaged, twenty one enemy killed, five Toltec slaves freed, no Toltec dead or wounded, he bowed and stepped back, the Tolteca went wild with joy, Jodas then stepped forward for Xocanti, sixteen enemy engaged, sixteen enemy dead, six Toltec slaves freed, no Toltec casualties, next came Santaros, nineteen enemy engaged, nineteen enemy dead, six Toltec slaves freed, no casualties, then Vincoso, nineteen enemy engaged, nineteen enemy dead, seven Toltec slaves freed, no casualties, finally our captain rose and gave our report, twenty one enemy engaged, twenty one enemy dead, nine Toltec slaves freed, no casualties, he then added that Coatl had himself dispatched the captain of the tax collectors in hand-to-hand combat, the applause was tumultuous, with people dancing and laughing, releasing all the tensions and stress that they had lived through recently, all their fears had been magically washed away by the numbers, ninety six enemy dead, thirty three Toltecs returned to the tribe, all without a single Toltec so much as stubbing his toe, it was more amazing than anyone had imagined or hoped for, today’s result would dispel any lingering doubt about Coatl’s god-head or the unusual way he waged war, with everyone in this holiday mood there was no point holding a planning meeting, so before we joined in the fun, Coatl paraded the freed slaves, there is no feeling more gratifying than to see the joy of a family who find a relative they thought lost forever, the people filed past, some with whoops of joy, others with a look of disappointment as they reached the end of the line, I heard one old man say to his wife


    7. he teetered back and forth stubbing his toe into the veneer


    8. while stubbing his big toe in the process in an attempt to


    9. “Okay,” Locke stopped, almost stubbing his toe on the sticky, waxed floor


    10. the darkness, stubbing his toe on the chamber pot beside his

    11. When this woman was peeing, and looking for toilet paper and probably not finding toilet paper, then wending her way back to bed through the motors and blades and TV intestines that Runner always pretended to be working on, maybe stubbing a toe, feeling sulky, I was crawling through snow toward my blood-soaked house, my family dead


    12. And thinks I to myself all the while, mind, while I was stubbing my silly toes against that cursed pyramid—so confoundedly contradictory was it all, all the while, I say, I was thinking to myself, 'what's his leg now, but a cane—a whalebone cane


    1. He left all his drawers open and all over the walls were fliers, notebook doodles, and movie ticket stubs


    2. He has enough aluminum in old pencil stubs to pay her off


    3. He stubs out his cigarette, straightens up, squints at the convoy, sees something that alarms him


    4. Boochie grabbed the limp man out of the chair and held him so his stubs


    5. now had burnt down to short stubs – then edged his way


    6. into its spot amongst all the other waxy stubs


    7. The blanket used to cover the opening was pushed aside as Bet and Frank came in drawing it closed behind them and lighting a couple of stubs of candle


    8. The ashtray next to her typewriter was the evidence – it was overflowing with stubs and old ash


    9. Suzuki rubbed his hands over the stubs of brittle hair on his bald head


    10. It was crippled with only deformed stubs for

    11. stubs with his talon, causing them to give forth a small


    12. Its claws are ground to stubs,


    13. Lucky the ticket stubs had been handed in to the Church


    14. Just two neatly severed stubs


    15. Steve suppresses his anger at Dippa for hanging up on him but only for a second or two; angrily he stubs out the half smoked cigarette in the ashtray


    16. Looking closely at the low wall he saw the stubs of metal


    17. Regretfully the cigarette is soon gone and Malcolm stubs out the butt in a small flowerpot on the ground


    18. I still have the remainder of my ticket stubs in my pocket so I decided to get something to eat from a small grocery store operated by a gas station owner nearby


    19. It was now just a dry tract of dirt with tracks of corn stalks sheared off, sticking up from the ground like stubby knives for as far as you could see, just rows and rows of dirty yellow stubs


    20. hung them on convenient branch stubs

    21. Along the top of the frame were small stubs of retractable wings on the side and a sail-fin at the zenith


    22. Dog-lovers? Hand me a scalpel and turn me loose on all who practice this barbarism and I’ll barber their behinds and ear lobes and see how they like it, fierce-looking or not! What the blankety-blank do all these puppy butchers need scary-looking dogs for, anyway? A beast with sharp teeth and powerful jaws and a built-in stupid loyalty to his or her “owner” can chase away or disable any bad guy just as easily with full-flopped ears and swishing tail as with stubs


    23. “Choosing is its own reward?” Miney instinctively stuck a business holo-card between his gnarled stubs, where her pixelating title strobed against his scabs – Monergic Spiritual Counselor


    24. checking his pay stubs because if he has been working overtime his pay


    25. stubs are going to show it


    26. On they worked, sweeping up cigarette stubs and ashes, hurrying out with trays of dirty dishes, scrubbing stains from the rugs, gathering together pieces of broken glass, and filling baskets with the trampled remains of crackers


    27. Popearae’s fingers rubbed over the stubs of bone that were just beginning to sprout from his spine


    28. He - the central essence of Lester, (or should it be Roger?) - he was a problem, with his economical flowing stroll, the shoulder-length hair, the chewed stubs of fingernails and his immunity to hurry or discipline


    29. steps, themselves replacing the worn stubs of the stone stairway


    30. Always check payroll stubs for tax deductions

    31. Would Claire have gone through the storage area in the basement? Paul was the one with an emotional attachment to silly love notes and the ticket stubs from the first movie they’d ever seen


    32. The ashtray is full: fifty stubs squashed in there, limbless, somehow gory


    33. Why do you save those ticket stubs and theater programs? They'll only hurt you later


    34. "Ticket stubs are trickery


    35. It was a tornado, funneling, driving, whispering, murmuring, feeling of the street ahead of it with big whirl-around brushes like sewer lids with rotary brushes under them, spinning, with a big rolling-pin brush turning under all the scattered trivia of the world's men, the ticket stubs from that show at the Elite tonight, and the wrapper from a chewing gum stick that now rested on top of a bureau in one of the houses, a small chewed cannonball of tasteless elasticity, and the candy wrapper from a bar now hidden and folded into the small accordion innards of a boy high in a cupola house in a magic room


    36. She was a magnet that invisibly drew good-luck charms, saints' medals, Roman coins, theater stubs, handkerchiefs, stickpins, while the audience ran riot, convulsed as these rabbit men stood peeled of all prides and protections


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    Synonyms for "stub"

    butt stub check stub counterfoil ticket stub nub tail end bottom tail base extremity

    "stub" definitions

    a short piece remaining on a trunk or stem where a branch is lost


    a small piece


    a torn part of a ticket returned to the holder as a receipt


    the part of a check that is retained as a record


    the small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking)


    pull up (weeds) by their roots


    extinguish by crushing


    clear of weeds by uprooting them


    strike (one's toe) accidentally against an object