Example Sentences

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I looked down and realized that I had been jabbing a hole in the wicker arm with my pencil.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

With the privilege of an old school-fellow and college classmate, he had been jabbing the soft coal with his walking-stick, causing it to burst into tiny flames.

From The Lost House by Davis, Richard Harding

The sky, the wind, the telegraph poles, had been jabbing in the harsh lesson of these men's voices, that the church, as people say, "wasn't in it."

From Soul of a Bishop by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)