Words similar to stab

Example sentences for: stab

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

While I acknowledge that it is not easy to know how to sort out the many topics to be covered in a usage book, most reasonable writers have taken a stab at writing an entry under a heading that seems a likely place to look, then have provided a detailed index.
A guy shows up to a psychiatric hospital apparently for treatment and then threatens to stab the staff.
Nevertheless, the tiara looked nothing at all like the Miss America crown, and I must admit I felt a stab of envy.
A former bodyguard told the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that he saw her stab the boy to death.
Men collide, blow themselves in half with their own mishandled grenades, stab themselves frantically with morphine needles, shove cigarettes up their noses to keep the stench of the dying and the dead at bay.