stab
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
The first stab at a post-Stokes team included four frontline seamers – Jofra Archer, Ollie Robinson, Josh Tongue and Gus Atkinson – supported by the part-time off-breaks of Dan Lawrence.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
Now let me take a stab at translating what it found:
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
Pintscher then served as its artist-in-residence, during which he oversaw a stab at the avant-garde.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
Depending on the species, chelicerae can function as pincers or fangs that grip, pierce, or stab prey.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
A huddle of young women—four young women—giggled behind their hands when they passed, eyeing Kamau appreciatively, and Ekon tried to temper an old stab of jealousy.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
“If you have a friend that stabs you in the back, that’s the way it was with what I had been taught about history,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
“Urchin” is energetic and filled with life: funny asides, tiny joys, stabs of recognition and flourishes of visual psychedelia.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2025
Certainly he and his team have given it their all; the time they’ve put in and their stabs at various compromises have been impressive.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2024
Susan Necheles, the only woman on Trump’s legal team in the Manhattan hush money case, repeatedly took stabs at Daniel’s credibility during Thursday's cross examination, seeking to portray her as self-serving and unreliable.
From Salon ● May 10, 2024
The brightness outside hurts my eyes and the wind makes them water and the screaming on the playground stabs my ears.
From "Mockingbird" by Kathryn Erskine
On his June 2026 song “We Know the Truth,” he rejected allegations connecting him to the killing and said he learned after arriving to perform at the festival that someone had been stabbed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
In the four years since her father was fatally stabbed near the entrance of their home in northern Israel, 10-year-old Shireen has carried the burden of grief on her tiny shoulders.
From Barron's ● Jul. 5, 2026
In one version circulating, attributed to a source in the VA police, she had already been stabbed by the time she arrived at the VA.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
Above all, we learn our lessons when we make misjudgments rather than claim we have been stabbed in the back.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 2026
Lupita felt stabbed to the heart by the word.
From "Lupita Mañana" by Patricia Beatty
Those faulty messages can produce shooting, stabbing or burning sensations.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
The Times filed a Freedom of Information Act request on June 2 for VA Police records of the hallway death and the stabbing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
U.K. officials have rebuffed the criticism, with Justice Secretary and Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy pointing out that the attacker was British and saying the stabbing had nothing to do with immigration.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
And Musk has repeatedly criticised the police response to Nowak's stabbing on his social platform X.
From BBC ● May 31, 2026
“I will use my own needles, thank you very much. Good honest bone. None of your nasty jagged iron things, stabbing you like little slivers of hate.”
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
