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How to use stab in a sentence

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They had both suffered gunshot and stab wounds and appeared to have been tortured.
One of the operations was to repair his left hand and stitch up stab wounds, which cut through to the bone.
She gasped out loud at the first icy stab of the droplets, then quickly shampooed her hair.
If you don't understand how to interpret them militarily, you may just stab yourself in the back with your own silver tongue.
But when he remembered of Jeannie and Neal being engaged he felt a sharp stab of pain and jealousy somewhere deep inside himself.
He felt a sharp stab of pain as he remembered that that was part of being in love.
The first man received nine stab wounds to his chest and the left-hand side of his body.
You could find yourself strutting in a mid-tempo Charleston or a taking a stab at the 23 skidoo.
Suddenly there was a sharp stab of pain in her shoulder blade, and she leaned forward quickly, a sharp cry escaping out of her throat.
You had to blast, stab and bludgeon your way through a number of missions which involved exploding stores, shoplifting and killing.
Liz thought he was vaguely familiar and took a stab in the dark where she had seen him from.
A woman was attacked by a mugger who threatened to stab her if she didn't hand over her handbag.
I went to reach for a second mug, figuring that Aidan might appreciate some coffee as well, when my foot gave a sudden sharp stab of pain.
But 300 years ago forks were unknown and the English peasant carried a multi-purpose knife on their belt to stab pieces of food.
Be it his usual commercial slop or this stab at achieving some street credit, he falls amazingly flat, as he always has.
In an effort to make a smooth transition from politics to pop culture, I'm going to take a stab at compiling a top 10 list of movie villains.
The viper fish swims very fast and uses these needle-like fangs to stab its prey.
In stab vests and riot gear, police stormed a number of Ulverston homes looking for drugs yesterday in a series of high-profile raids.
This caused Diane and Olly to grab knives and, intending to kill him, continually stab Victor until he died.
How many others felt a sharp stab of anxiety as they stepped onto the underground escalator on their way to work?
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Examples from Classical Literature
She pointed the knifepoint at his face, close enough to stab him if need be.
But I laughed at him and saw his broad paddle stab the water, and the birchen craft shoot out among the reeds.
In a fit of jealousy, he attempted to stab her, and Gabrielli was only saved from transfixion by the whalebone of her stays.
Still, Arnold never forgave the stab that was then so deservingly yet so pityingly dealt him.
Gad, how happy he would be to stab a rapier through any one of these obese swine!
Her poor old joints seemed to stab her, but she fought off the pain angrily.
For suddenly he was surprised by a most disagreeable sense of grittiness, and then a keen stab in the roof of his month.
Then an insensate wish to stab him to the heart made her turn her head and look at him.
A second stab of sparky flame split the darkness and Robideau reeled back into the arms of his panicky soldiers.
He felt a stab of pity for her as he dragged her to her chaise longue and let her fall there.
You don't know he was followed and that he was laid dead with the stab of a hayfork?
I saw the small stab of flame, heard the zing of the bullet.
You can't shoot with bow and arrow, or stab with a hunting knife.
It was cut and parry and stab as quick as eye could see or hand act.
Cardiff-born Peter has written a number of educational books and short stories but Painted Ladies is his first stab at crime fiction.
Clare received a fatal stab in the side with a bowie-knife, which he was attempting to wrest from one of them.
And so each way I turned, there was a new dagger to stab me.
Charles is all very blusterous, says things without thinking a lot of the time but he will never stab anyone in the back or do anyone wrong.
The strangeness of his answering voice only repeated the stab of fear.
I have no mind to get a knock on the head or a stab in the back directly I am let out.
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