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Example sentences for: rub

How can you use “rub” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

And there's the rub: this actually happened to the Director of the Wellcome Trust.
16, "Do not Puff up the Cheeks, Loll not out the tongue, rub the Hands, or beard, thrust out the lips, or bite them or keep the Lips too open or too Close."
But the publication also says that she is recording a blues album, all the better to "[rub] her martyrdom in the face of her errant husband."
The rub, however, is that fitness-enhancing mutations are a small minority, and the preponderance of deleterious mutations means that RNA viruses live on the edge of survival (Domingo 2000).
This book is highly sophisticated and deeply naive, just as punning is adult/childish, iuvenis senex ; ingenuity and ingenuousness rub matey shoulders.