stab

Example Sentences

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I felt a stab of pain whenever I coughed or sneezed.

From Slate • Mar. 29, 2026

"We used big chisels on the end of broom handles. A bit like gardening hoes. You use those to stab at it and shave stuff way," explained Roche.

From BBC • Mar. 1, 2026

“She gets to be released on Valentine’s Day, which is another stab in the gut,” Montalvo said.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2026

There’s also a reference to septicemia, which is writer-director Emerald Fennell’s perhaps too-technical stab at explaining the nonspecific Victorian disease that afflicts one character.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026

Not so long ago, they’d been lean and strong, able to crack a nut with a pinch, able to press a seed deep into the earth with one stab of a finger.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby