Example Sentences

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Their thighs feel stabbingly sore, their hamstrings twang like banjos, and their toenails darken like the hastening afternoon sky.

From New York Times • Nov. 5, 2021

It’s alternately brutally honest, philosophically deep, stabbingly funny and, perhaps most important, refreshingly humble.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 24, 2016

Darling is a bitter, glittering and sometimes stabbingly brilliant tale of a jet-set jade and how she grew.

From Time Magazine Archive

Through a gap in the laurels they could see the ocean, stabbingly blue in contrast to the white dunes which reared battlements along the top of the gravel cliff.

From The Innocents A Story for Lovers by Lewis, Sinclair