Example sentences for: stab

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

  • But I'll take a stab at it anyway, and finish, in the spirit of the family, and maybe even the Breakfast Table, not with a last word, but with a last question.

  • William Safire took a futile stab in 1980, opining that when the purpose of turning a thing into an act is trendy brevity, or chicspeak [!], the practice is bad style.

  • The affidavits also attest that he watched friends stab a woman to death and bathe in her blood.

  • Apparently, Furrow's was a borderline case: He had slashed his wrists, tried to stab workers at a mental health facility, and constantly talked about his violent, racist fantasies; on the other hand, he had had only one run-in with the law, had sought psychiatric care, held a degree in engineering, and had held numerous jobs, including one at the Boeing Co.

  • Christ on a crutch, what does he have to do to lose your support, stab David Geffen with a kitchen knife?


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