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Example sentences for "stubbed"

Lexicographically close words:
stryke; stryken; stryve; stuard; stub; stubble; stubbled; stubbles; stubbly; stubborn
  1. I can do the one hundred things beyond the next thing, but I stub my toe on that, just as you stubbed your toe on mathematics this fall.

  2. But Amory knew that nothing in the abstract, no theory or generality, ever moved Rahill until he stubbed his toe upon the concrete minutiae of it.

  3. His face was fresh and ruddy, his white hair was rumpled, his stubbed mustache, which ordinarily gave an effect of saving his youth in his middle years, seemed to bristle aggressively, and his eyes still burned from the excitement of the day.

  4. He had a flat nose, and beneath, half encircling his broad, deep mouth, was a black mustache, stubbed and not much larger than his eyebrows.

  5. Sammy Pinkney, who did not wear gloves and therefore had already got plenty of "prickers" in his stubbed fingers, although the nutting party had not been in the grove half an hour.

  6. A somewhat slovenly looking craft, wide of beam, unpainted, with stubbed masts, old rigging, and a dirty smother of canvas that had not been even reefed when it was allowed to drop upon the deck.

  7. Quite as often he understepped and stubbed his feet.

  8. Sometimes he overstepped and stubbed his nose.

  9. Lejeune was not a man to consider any other result, or his men inclined to waste time when the 1st Division was waiting in the rear to take the 2nd's place if it so much as stubbed its toe.

  10. We should not try to walk through this wicked world without making very certain that we have stubbed the thorns out of our hearts.

  11. The path may be broken up, the rock blasted and removed, the thorns stubbed up.

  12. Raynard, Dunn, and Mrs. Fletcher lifted the body over the low hedge into Raynard's croft or garden, and buried it in a place where the ground had been disturbed that day by his having stubbed up an old root.

  13. The garden had contained fruit trees; but these he stubbed up, and instead planted the whole garth with potatoes.

  14. He folded and sealed his note, written in the clear stubbed hand of the monasteries.

  15. At present the net result of our combats is that I have a stubbed toe.

  16. Presently Clementine, like her namesake in the song, "Stubbed her toe upon a kitten, Drefful sorry, Clementine!

  17. Would he trip at the corner where he always stubbed his toe?

  18. As von Herrnung took a step nearer to the stretcher, his toe stubbed against and caught in the strap of a leather case lying on the littered floor.

  19. Stubbed his toe on--on the Lord's ladder!

  20. Jerry in passing across the cabin tripped, and uttered a grunt as though he had stubbed his toe.

  21. You'd think he'd just stubbed his toe, and we happened along in time to help him rub the same.

  22. A fellow was carrying two cups of boiling hot coffee, and he stubbed his toe, and some one got scalded a little.

  23. Being gawky, he stubbed his toe as he was rounding the group of women, and Mrs. Miller shrieked and swung back her hand, cuffing the gawky one straight into the thickest of the crowd.

  24. And here, in the perpetual twilight, they slept and sucked, and sprawled and tumbled, and occasionally went tremendous expeditions, and stubbed their noses against the pine root that struck like a savage promontory into the abyss.

  25. She wore the stubbed russet shoes, a not too fresh cotton frock of pale yellow, and a brown straw sailor.

  26. As for the rest, she wore faded blue, which melted into the blue of the mists, stubbed and shabby russet shoes and an air of absorption in her returned soldier.

  27. He hung up and stubbed out the latest in his series of cigars.

  28. Malone stubbed out his cigar, lit another one absent-mindedly, and rescued his tie, which was working its slow way around to the side of his collar.

  29. The shabby, stubbed little figure in the dooryard, halting with rusty calico riding skirt dragged about her, choked and shivered.

  30. He bent and placed the instrument properly in Ola's grasp, disposing the short, stubbed fingers on the strings.

  31. Pugdul ang íkug sa irù, The dog has a stubbed tail.

  32. Putul ug íkug ang irù, The dog has a stubbed tail.

  33. Irù nga pintul ug íkug, A dog with a stubbed tail.

  34. It doesn't seem as if you had ever stubbed your foot against anything; and I'm always stubbing.

  35. My dear, I have stubbed along through fifty-six years; and the years had all three hundred and sixty-five days in them.

  36. Just then Robe stubbed his toe--or seemed to do so--tumbled on his hands and knees and rolled over.

  37. So do I; ye can't flop quicker than mesilf; it isn't the first time me tongue has stubbed its toe.

  38. Don't get scared," the boy said, and bent over to examine whatever it was he had stubbed his toe against.

  39. David glanced carelessly at the pink little hand, with its close-clipped, shallow nails and stubbed fingertips.

  40. The old man fumbled in his vest pocket for a stubbed pencil.

  41. He stubbed out his cigarette and rose, and as he did, Erskyll came out of his daze and onto his feet.

  42. He stubbed out the cigarette and summoned the robot to give him another.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stubbed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    blocky; chubby; dumpy; fat; podgy; pudgy; retrousse; squat; stocky; stubby; stumpy; thickset