Example Sentences

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“She thought that it would go to press and be read by the city of Boston before I realized that she had jabbed me in the eye,” Dorland said.

From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2021

He later said that Cho had jabbed his hand with a document folder, swore and pointed her finger at him while he kneeled to apologize.

From Time • Dec. 16, 2014

Commentators Drew Pearson and Walter Winchell, who had jabbed away at Forrestal for relentless months in syndicated columns and Sunday-night broadcasts, found themselves the attacked instead of the attackers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Small as she was, she had jabbed him with her already powerful talons as he carried her to the ground.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

And he said: 'Suppose your master had jabbed the hatpin just anywhere, nowhere near the centre—how the orange would have wobbled, wouldn't it?'

From Captivity by Eyles, M. Leonora