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Example sentences for "stub"

Lexicographically close words:
stryfe; stryke; stryken; stryve; stuard; stubbed; stubble; stubbled; stubbles; stubbly
  1. Mapakdul giyud kag mulakaw ka sa ngitngit, You will stub your toes if you walk in the dark.

  2. Another sapling should next be procured, its length being sufficient to reach from the muzzle of the gun to the end of the first stick, and having a branch stub or hook on one end.

  3. For this reason it is advisable to trim smoothly all the projections and leave no stub or knot hole by which he could gain the slightest hold.

  4. He watched while Sinclair deliberately took out an old stained envelope and the stub of a pencil and started to write.

  5. She went straight to the jail and met the sheriff at the door, where he sat, smoking a stub of a pipe.

  6. Right," replied Lodge, entirely won over, and he settled himself on the grass, with the notebook on his knee and a stub of a pencil poised over it.

  7. But the truth was that a land crab, with an unsolvable mania for playing the rôle of torchbearer, would be scuttling away with the stub in one of its claws.

  8. One versed in the science of forestry might have recognised the little stub of switch as a peach-tree switch; one bred of the soil would have known its purpose.

  9. From his shirt pocket he drew the stub of a lead pencil and the note- book in which he had written his will and the record of his betrayal.

  10. He sat down forthwith, turned back the sweat-band, moistened it slightly and with the stub of an indelible pencil wrote his name in full.

  11. DAN comes back from the bedroom, his cigarette stub between his lips.

  12. DAN comes in from the sun-room, smoking the stub of a cigarette.

  13. As she stares at him, putting the stub in an ashtray on the table) I am sorry.

  14. Taking the stub out of his mouth with alacrity and taking off his hat) Oh, I'm sorry.

  15. DAN returns from the kitchen, with a copy of the "News of the World," the Bible tucked under his arm, a cigarette stub between his lips.

  16. There to the south what seemed to be a stub of black pencil was slowly dissolving into the snow gray clouds.

  17. The stub of a candle guttered on the table and only his face seemed lighted; everything else faded away into shadowy silhouetting darkness.

  18. There was one man back there so fat and pusy that we wondered what would happen s'posing he should stub his toe.

  19. When you cut the cable that root hit you on the head," she explained, pointing to the root-stub that held the boat firmly against the trunk of the tree.

  20. The tying had been hurriedly accomplished, and with the aid of a projecting limb stub the knot that secured her wrists was loosened and she freed her hands.

  21. He had kindly blue eyes, a stub nose, and a mouth that shut to like a rat-trap, and stayed shut.

  22. A crack started from the left-hand corner of the Captain's mouth, crossed a fissure in his face, stopped within half an inch of his stub nose, and died out in a smile of derision.

  23. Three weeks ago--I found this stub of a ticket among old magazines, Spanish magazines, and there was a television program also in Spanish and there was the stub of this ticket.

  24. You testified they had removed your passport and your diploma and Lee's union cards and Social Security card and everything else--I was just wondering how they happened to leave this particular article with the bus stub in it?

  25. You could read the stub all right, could you, Mrs. Oswald?

  26. I noticed something in the paper the other day where you had found a one-way ticket or stub on the bus from Mexico City to Dallas, I believe it was.

  27. I found the stub of this ticket approximately 2 weeks ago when working with Priscilla Johnson on the book.

  28. His drum was the stub of a dry limb about the size of one's wrist.

  29. Then he rose slowly, and rubbed his hands along the stub as high as he could reach.

  30. It was that and not the stub that interested Roderick Drew!

  31. Then he hurried to the dead stub beside the chasm wall.

  32. It means," continued Wabigoon, "that this old stub has for a good many years been used!

  33. He understood now why this old stub had drawn his companions away from their search for gold, and he felt the flush of excitement go out of his own cheeks, and an involuntary thrill pass up his back.

  34. Visions of a great treasure had been constantly before their eyes, and now that they were here, with the gold perhaps under their very feet, both Mukoki and Wabigoon were more interested in a dead stub than in their search for it!

  35. If it were a lynx, the surface of the stub would be cut into shreds.

  36. The surface of the stub was not only smooth and free of limbs, but was polished until it shone with the reflecting luster of a waxed pillar!

  37. Let's get our stuff down here and chop this stub into firewood!

  38. Only the arms and legs of a man going up and down that stub hundreds and thousands of times could have worn it so smooth!

  39. For a moment the strange creature crouched where the stub had been, and when he saw that it was gone he stood erect, and a quavering, pitiful cry echoed softly through the chasm.

  40. Somehow it seemed that John Ball had died for them, and the thought clutched at their hearts that if they had not cut down the stub he would still be alive.

  41. The top of the stub was within easy reach, and the whole tree was entirely free of bark or limbs, a fact which in his present excitement did not strike him as especially unusual.

  42. They saw many footprints, and the stub of a cigarette.

  43. Some one passing in the daytime before we arrived may have flung the stub away," said the lawyer.

  44. He took the stub of a lead pencil from the pocket of his shirt.

  45. An' there's that," he muttered as he threw away the stub of his smoke and began to roll another.

  46. When I asked the sheriff for a stub of a pencil he took me at my word.

  47. Just opposite his window was the stub of an old pine partly covered with Virginia creeper.

  48. Waxing, Tying, Bagging As soon as the grafts are set, cover the entire wound with grafting wax, being careful to cover the top of the stub well and the sides as far down as the bark is split, and the upper end of the scion.

  49. Then place a paper sack over the stub to prevent evaporation and leave this on until the scions start into growth.

  50. After my scion is well under way a year or so then I saw off any projecting stub beyond the graft and put paraffin over the cut end.

  51. The dance is continued some time, STUB dancing by himself, L.

  52. When it is TOM'S turn to dance, STUB slips into set, and gives his hand.

  53. TOM dances a little while before finding his mistake; then pushes STUB back, looks round and up, descries KITTY and NAT.

  54. TOM is about to seize her, she stoops, and runs across stage, catches STUB by the arms, and whirls him round.

  55. It's time Stub was back from the depot with Charity.

  56. STUB comes down softly, takes pistol, goes up, crosses stage, and hides behind bar.

  57. And when the studio was closed to the priests and the other respectable friends, with heavy step in came Rodríguez, a policeman, with a cigarette stub under his heavy bristling mustache and one hand on the handle of his sword.

  58. And Rodríguez, erect in his bath robe with the blue rag hanging from his shoulders, clasped his hands and lifted his fierce gaze to the ceiling, without ceasing to suck the stub that singed his mustache.

  59. Americans may for years to come be able to furnish a good, fair, stoga joke that will do to stub around home with, but they cannot design a joke that will do to dress up in and wear on great occasions.

  60. The prevailing cow for this season seems to be a seal-brown cow with a stub tail, which is arranged as a night-key.

  61. With this he severed clean the broken half of the boom, tying the ends of the rigging to the short stub that was left.

  62. Then they brought up the stub of the boom from the yacht and got the exact measure of the old one from the sail, which they disentangled from the snarl of rigging, and spread out.

  63. There was scarcely room in the cabin of the Spray for more than four of them to sit and eat, so they threw the mainsail over the stub of the boom and made a shelter out of it against the rain.


  64. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stub" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    boundary; brand; brush; butt; cachet; check; colophon; dock; docket; extreme; extremity; fag; fantail; hallmark; imprint; label; letterhead; limit; masthead; pigtail; plate; point; pole; queue; receipt; seal; signet; stamp; sticker; stub; stump; tail; tally; ticket; tip; token