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Example sentences for: rubs

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

Each animal rubs the lower portion of its jaw on a gland in the other's mid-dorsum.
One rubs one's eyes in "slight" astonishment.
In that famous poem, Keats rubs autumn with the balm of his moistened language: "Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,/ Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun ..."
We need a chump to cheer us so God rubs Job with brine, playing Satan
The reporter and lover of nitty-gritty facts rubs up against the acolyte of the Frankfurt School.