Use "stubs" in a sentence
stubs example sentences
stubs
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
