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Example sentences for: stabs

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Martial music and an outrider-flagged motorcade herald Pat Buchanan's return to Crossfire , the show that gave him enough currency in households across the United States to take not one, but two stabs at the presidency.
It was lyophilized at about the same time that the archival collection was being stored in agar stabs.
Miller's journey into the bowels of the war--through rubbled villages and fields strewn with rotting corpses--attains the surreal intensity that Francis Ford Coppola strove for in Apocalypse Now (1979), except without the self-conscious Golden Bough stabs at myth-making.
Nic's wife dreams of coming upon Nic in a jazz combo, then dancing half-naked for old people; Nic dreams of being dogged at a train station by a gangly cretin who then stabs him.
No more stabs, Walter.