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Example sentences for: stab

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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.
But that opens another can of worms, and Lemann's stab at the enormously difficult problem of improving education at the lower levels is not too encouraging: "We should adopt the goal of sending most people all the way through college ...
A former bodyguard told the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that he saw her stab the boy to death.
This seems to encourage word buffs to take a stab at their own versions--a popular pastime if the many letters I receive are any indication.
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.