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.

  • Rather, it is the artistry that rubs off on the person steeped in the best parts of the culture, the phrase unconsciously plucked from a 17th-century poem or 16th-century play, (no matter how corny, like Methinks the lady doth protest too much), the single word that indicates at least passing familiarity with history (like defenestration ), the fragment of an air associated with a Bach fugue.

  • 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 ..."

  • There's a third person present, a man with whom Clinton is conversing even as he rubs Schiff's thighs.


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