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Example sentences for "jabs"

Lexicographically close words:
jabbering; jabbing; jabiru; jaborandi; jabot; jacal; jacamar; jacana; jacanas; jacet
  1. Another naked heathen, who sits straddle the animal's neck, looks around at the load, inquires if everybody is ready, jabs the elephant under the ear with a sharpened iron prong and then the trouble begins.

  2. He jabs the Mexican spurs into the foamy flank of his noble cay use plug, and the lash of the quirt as it moves through the air is singing a merry song.

  3. He also jabs his finger into the rosebud mouth of the wild-eyed calf, and proceeds to wean him from the gentle cow.

  4. He jabs the Mexican spurs into the foamy flank of his noble cayuse plug, and the lash of the quirt as it moves through the air is singing a merry song.

  5. Once more he plunged after his man, but now I could see his rushes were more under control, his smashing blows better timed, his fierce jabs more shrewdly delivered.

  6. Bonteck broke the clinch with a volley of short-arm jabs that was little less than murderous, and when he was hammered out of the clinch, Ingerson staggered and went down.

  7. At this, Bonteck shifted his short-arm jabs from the ribs and swung upon the unguarded jaw; whereupon Ingerson lost his grip and curled up on the ground like some huge worm that had been stepped on.

  8. Mr. Smith, left alone at his table, wrote again furiously, and with vicious little jabs of his pencil.

  9. Over at the table Mr. Smith had fallen to writing furiously, with vicious little jabs of his pencil.

  10. They are getting the opportunity here all right, and some of them are uncovering a likely line of jabs and counters.

  11. You should make two jabs in the air with your forefinger when you quote.

  12. Down he plumped into Conover's chair, seized a pencil and made tentative jabs at a sheet of paper.

  13. After he's blasted out a hole big enough for a terminal tunnel he jabs in a hunk of cotton soaked with sulphuric acid, and then tamps down the concrete.

  14. I forgot just what it was Bob shot over; but after standin' her jabs for quite some time without gettin' real personal he comes back with some stage whisper remark that cut in deep.

  15. Aunt Tillie throws four cat-fits to the minute, and lets loose on Sadie with all kinds of polite jabs that she can lay her tongue to.

  16. And just as I gets this notion in my nut, he cuts loose with a bunch of rapid-fire jabs that had me wonderin' where I'd be if one landed just right.

  17. An old man with a wooden leg was approaching, keeping the tempo of his song with jabs of the pin that took the place of his right foot.

  18. I get in a few whole-arm jabs and then, just as everything looks rosy, there's an error, and fate gets past my guard.

  19. As he is passing through the gate a man perched up out of harm's way jabs a cruel harpoon on the end of a handle decked with gaily colored ribbons between the bull's shoulders.

  20. So a baiter on a horse, rides up and jabs the bull's shoulder with his spear, and another rider jabs him on the other side.


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