stab

Example Sentences

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

From Slate • Mar. 29, 2026

Steve Sosnick, chief market strategist at Interactive Brokers, took a stab at answering that question in commentary shared with MarketWatch on Thursday.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 14, 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

Smells stab my nose—fumes from the road, rotting food from a garbage bin, and others I don't recognize.

From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman