stub

Example Sentences

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When you touch a hot pan, stub your toe, or bump your head, your nervous system instantly delivers an “Ow!” that prompts you to pull back before more damage occurs.

From Science Daily • Oct. 10, 2025

What was billed as a battle of heavyweights might instead come down to who manages to stub their toe less.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 3, 2025

Although Hug’s Wikipedia article is very short—a mere stub, some would say—it’s worth considering what gets lost when Wikipedia excludes this type of content.

From Slate • Aug. 4, 2024

The defendant or his sons signed 11 checks to Michael Cohen with a false stub notation, “Retainer.”

From Salon • May 24, 2024

He stamped on his cigar stub in the ashtray beside the radio and with it, it seemed, the anger too, for his voice grew gentle again.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom