stab
verb (used with object)
to pierce or wound with or as if with a pointed weapon.
was stabbing
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past progressiveof stab.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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"I wrote it down on a piece of paper while I was on the phone and was stabbing at it with a pen and mouthing to my colleague, I have this," she said.
From BBC ● Nov. 18, 2021
The underwire was stabbing me, the back was scratchy.”
From The Guardian ● Jul. 5, 2020
Officer Nhut Huynh was among 16 officers who received the Medal of Valor for acts that included rescuing a child from a burning house and saving a woman from a man who was stabbing her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2018
And, as you say, the even worse effect of this was to instill the idea in Stalin’s mind that the United States was stabbing him in the back by cutting this separate deal in Italy.
From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2015
He and many others believed that the German government ended the war too early and was "stabbing" the German people in the back.
From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple
