Example Sentences

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Your index finger is stabbing the air every time that chorus hits.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2022

Talking about the “pace of technological change” is only the tip of the spear of MBA-speak that is stabbing the academy.

From Slate • Apr. 3, 2012

Anterior to this position the most serious mischief that can ordinarily result is stabbing of the os pedis.

From Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Reeks, Harry Caulton

Dr. Ward was puzzled by this representation and sets it down as a “fantastic” scene in which “each Gilgamesh is stabbing the other.”

From An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic by Jastrow, Morris

"It is good to see creatures that no man is stabbing or doing harm to."

From The Ward of King Canute; a romance of the Danish conquest by Liljencrantz, Ottilie A. (Ottilia Adelina)