Example Sentences

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As the footage continues, the officer can be heard asking: "You've been stabbed, whereabouts?" before adding: "Don't think you have, mate."

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026

Above all, we learn our lessons when we make misjudgments rather than claim we have been stabbed in the back.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026

The prime minister has been heckled during a visit to Golders Green, the north London suburb where two Jewish men were stabbed on Wednesday.

From BBC • Apr. 30, 2026

Elordi strides naturally through the film’s burning-of-Atlanta orange sunscapes and its grasslands stabbed by obsidian spikes of rock.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2026

Jen stabbed the power button on the computer.

From "Among the Hidden" by Margaret Peterson Haddix