stabbing

Example Sentences

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The Malicious Shooting or Stabbing Act of 1803 outlawed the “malicious using of means to procure the miscarriage of women,” and abortion after “quickening” — or fetal movement — was considered a capital offense.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 25, 2020

A Dead Father Remembered by Many, and a Stabbing Suspect Known to Few A woman named Amy, 37, stood with her 3-year-old daughter parked on her hip on East Fifth Street in Alphabet City.

From New York Times • Jun. 16, 2012

Stabbing prey Preening Digging Lawmakers in New York are about to debate a bill that would crack down on pedestrians doing what as they cross the street?

From BBC • Jan. 27, 2011

Stabbing at the sheets, Oberstar points to one item, a smallish request to build a sewage system for a tiny town in Minnesota.

From Time Magazine Archive

Stabbing swords of light leaped forth from them, piercing the stone, crumbling it, absorbing it.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 by Bates, Harry