Example Sentences

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In addition to the weather, he said, there are “mountain lions, black bear, scorpions, black widows — not to mention the cactus that will stab you as you walk through.”

From Seattle Times • Feb. 24, 2022

Q: At the end of "Entourage" episode 2, Dice wants to renegotiate his contract on a movie because, so it's implied, you think Hollywood will stab you in the back.

From Reuters • Aug. 5, 2011

Later it will stab on 400 miles further to Lanchow, remote outpost just south of the Great Wall.

From Time Magazine Archive

I shall have my mind wavering when I speak to him; and the least complaisance which I show to him, will stab me to the heart like a dagger.

From The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01 by Anonymous

"On the day that I am persuaded," writes Saint-Just, "that it is impossible to render the French people kind, energetic, tender and relentless against tyranny and injustice, I will stab myself."

From The French Revolution - Volume 3 by Durand, John