Example Sentences
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The United States has taken stabs at regulating its groundwater use, but in some cases those attempts appear to be failing.
From Salon • Jul. 28, 2025
“Urchin” is energetic and filled with life: funny asides, tiny joys, stabs of recognition and flourishes of visual psychedelia.
From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2025
Certainly he and his team have given it their all; the time they’ve put in and their stabs at various compromises have been impressive.
From Slate • Sep. 11, 2024
The brass stabs that open Act I had an almost expressionistic quality — severe, vital, grim — and the ones that closed it were cold, powerful and withholding.
From New York Times • Feb. 29, 2024
He grins and stabs his trowel in for another load of dirt.
From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson
