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Example sentences for "jabbed"

Lexicographically close words:
ivy; iwis; izar; jabber; jabbered; jabbering; jabbing; jabiru
  1. It--it hurts them to be jabbed with a hook," wept Sarah.

  2. Really it sounded as though someone had jabbed it viciously.

  3. Pettishly he reached out and clutched at a scalpel, cleansed it for an instant in the flame, and jabbed the point of it into his wrist.

  4. The most radiant bride of the year jabbed her fingers accidentally with her scissors.

  5. Until I've made up my mind--" She turned and frowned thoughtfully at her two companions, jabbed a finger at the tall one.

  6. As the beetle's flank cleared the corner of the digging blade with inches to spare, Dworn's gun turret passed in line with the space between the blade and the caterpillar's treads, and he jabbed the firing button.

  7. Some one laughed and jabbed his hands into the air.

  8. He jabbed forth a heavy finger and punched Fairchild in the ribs.

  9. Hopalong absent-mindedly jabbed his spurs into his mount with the result that when the storm had subsided the spell was broken and he said "So long," and rode south, followed by Buck and Red.

  10. Mr. Cassidy, while figuring out his method of procedure, absent-mindedly jabbed a finger in his eye, and the ensuing tears floated an idea to him.

  11. He felt for his spectacles, but did not need them, for he could see nothing but the Colt's which Billy jabbed at him.

  12. Yoritomo jabbed the air twice with a rapid forefinger.

  13. He jabbed a fist out, shadowboxing with Stanton over the phone circuit.

  14. While they were still twitching, he went over and jabbed them with a drug needle.

  15. He snipped the end off the cigar with a gold clipper, then jabbed a full inch of the end into his mouth and rolled the cigar around as though tasting its flavor.

  16. Stan jabbed a slab of wood into the stove and slammed the door.

  17. He also would be very careful no one bumped into him and jabbed him with a hypodermic needle.

  18. Mitchell straightened up as if somebody had jabbed him with a pin.

  19. He tossed the cigar in the general direction of the ashtray, grabbed the phone and jabbed at buttons.

  20. He jabbed his saif straight at one of de Gobignon's few vulnerable places, his right eye, stopping the point a finger's breadth from the pupil.

  21. Daoud jabbed de Gobignon under the armpit, so hard that he felt the flexible metal of his saif bend.

  22. Dave jabbed him in the stomach with his thumb.

  23. His thoughts were like so many dancing demons that whirled around inside his brain and continually jabbed him with the sharp pointed spears they carried.

  24. He simply nodded, wrote something on a card and then jabbed a button and picked up a Husho-Phone.

  25. They both jabbed their trigger button and sixteen Vickers machine guns poured a withering blast of destruction into that Junkers 88.

  26. And when Dave and Freddy jabbed their trigger buttons again it was the death blow for that German raider.

  27. I swung the lantern in their faces, I brandished the hoe-handle at them, I jabbed at them recklessly.

  28. He had you all right—it’s wound round a root and then jabbed deep into it … hard luck!

  29. Shut up, both of you," Jake growled, and jabbed him again with the gun.

  30. Mallory shifted his foot cautiously, and instantly a gun was jabbed into his stomach, with a snarl: "Don't you move!

  31. When the passengers had shoved and jostled into line, one of the men jabbed the conductor in the back with the muzzle of his gun, and snarled: "Now speak your little piece, like I learned it to you.

  32. After catching your lemming you skin and gut him, and then place him to toast in front of the general fire on the end of a pointed stick, which is jabbed into the ground.

  33. This entailed a reconstruction of the entire edifice, and as Hayter said he was the least clumsy of the two of us, he crawled outside, replaced the stones on the sides, and jabbed in fresh thorns where they were needed.

  34. As he read a letter from one of the firm's customers he took it up and jabbed little holes in the leather cover of his desk.

  35. When he had several letters to sign he took up his pen and jabbed it almost viciously into the inkwell.

  36. Then before signing he jabbed it in again.

  37. The muzzle of a rifle was jabbed against his chest.

  38. But frightened by the yells and execrations, pounded with staffs and bamboo yokes, and jabbed by the knives, spears, and bayonets of the soldiers, they stampeded along the narrow way through the midst of the procession.

  39. He rebuttoned the uniform, then jabbed again at the girl's ribs.

  40. The girl sniffed, opened her mouth to speak--and the red-head darted out a stiff finger, jabbed her under the ribs.

  41. Dave watched him and got a big kick as the officer jabbed one of a row of buttons and then went back a step.

  42. Three seconds, and then Dave jabbed his electric firing trigger.

  43. Dave cried, and jabbed an elbow in his pal's ribs.

  44. One morning when we were sitting in the office before going out to the street for the morning's grist, Mehronay dog-eared a fat piece of copy and jabbed it on the hook as he started for the door.

  45. And he rose and went over to the box, uncovered it, and jabbed in the lever with a nervous hand.

  46. When we screamed with the hurt, he roared his satisfaction and jabbed the harder.

  47. Not content with this, he broke off a stout branch, and, holding on with one hand and foot, jabbed the infuriated beasts in the sides and whacked them across their noses.

  48. Then he laughed harshly and jabbed a big finger at Dave.

  49. Dave howled and jabbed his trigger release button at the same instant he kicked his Mark 5 around in a flash half turn.

  50. Dave grinned and jabbed Freddy in the stomach with his thumb.

  51. Then he jabbed the trigger button and sent a two second burst of machine gun and 20-mm.

  52. As he spoke the last he jabbed the trigger release button and held it pressed for three long seconds before the sane side of him could force him to quit it.

  53. We moved on to two more physicians, and while one dug a hunk out of our arm and inserted vaccine in place of the skin removed, the other man, with a villainously long hypodermic, jabbed at the iodine mark and pulled the trigger.

  54. Illustration: Jabbed at the iodine mark and pulled the trigger] After that we stripped, lined up and started on our way.

  55. As I jabbed the pen back into the dish of bird shot, I said: "'Can you direct me to the bank?

  56. When it was open, drops jabbed into her eyes and chilled her cheeks.

  57. He jabbed her back into the seat with his elbow.

  58. William jabbed a lady in a black silk raglan in the ribs, kicked a boy in the shin, bit an old gentleman on the left ear and managed to crowd nearer to Violet.


  59. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jabbed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.