Example Sentences

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A French-Canadian cabdriver taking me back to the airport kept mumbling: “The giant has stubbed his toe. The giant has stubbed his toe.”

From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2017

Author Fischer, a onetime Communist sympathizer, now retreads the uphill trail of regret for his lost Utopia; he has all the painful sincerity of a man who has stubbed his toe upon an immovable rock.

From Time Magazine Archive

But when it comes to asserting that the army is brushing its teeth, or has stubbed its toe, or has a stomach ache, there is obvious difficulty.

From Social Value A Study in Economic Theory Critical and Constructive by Anderson, Benjamin M. (Benjamin McAlester)