How to Use stub in a Sentence

stub

1 of 2 noun

• Hold onto your ticket stub in case you leave the theater and want to come back in again.
• Always leave a bit of the stub rather than cut right to the bark.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Mar. 2022
• The ticket stub is for the game at Ebbets Field on Oct. 6.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 28 Nov. 2022
• Do not leave more than a ¼-inch of a stub, and seal the open wound with pruning paint.
  — Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com, 18 Dec. 2020
• After it had been passed around and smoked to a stub, the group stepped inside.
  — New York Times, 20 July 2022
• The Man poster on one wall, and above the door frame, a life-size ticket stub from that last night of the band’s 2018 tour.
  — Lyndsey Havens, Billboard, 22 June 2023
• Where her arm used to be, the octopus has a stub of bright-white flesh.
  — Anna Blaustein, Scientific American, 23 Apr. 2021
• Cut back to where the flower stem meets the main stem of the plant so unsightly stubs aren’t left.
  — Betty Cahill, The Denver Post, 27 June 2019
• The payment stub at the bottom of the bill should be included.
  — Brandi Addison, Dallas News, 24 Nov. 2020
• The source of the leak was also caused by an inactive Driscopipe 8000 stub.
  — Amaris Encinas, The Arizona Republic, 23 Sep. 2021
• Once the ballot is filled out, the voter detaches the stub at the top and keeps it for their records.
  — Morgan Cook, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Oct. 2020
• There, they were attached to either side of a stub known as the center wing box.
  — Niraj Chokshi Lindsey Wasson, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2023
• All that remained was an inch-long stub of metal sticking out of the ground.
  — New York Times, 3 Aug. 2021
• Move along, boomers, and take your old-school paper ticket stubs with you.
  — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 26 Mar. 2023
• Do not remove the stub from your ballot or it will not be counted.
  — Peter Krouse, cleveland, 6 Oct. 2020
• The auction house anticipates that the stub will sell for at least $5,000.
  — Justin Ray, Robb Report, 5 July 2023
• And the toe caps nicely padded the front of my feet just as securely against any stubs on small rocks or boulders.
  — Karthika Gupta, Travel + Leisure, 21 Oct. 2023
• There was a ticket stub sticking out of his left breast pocket.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2022
• There may be a stub of drywall or a ripped piece of paper preventing a tight fit.
  — Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 2 May 2022
• Include the remittance stub or write the account number on the check.
  — cleveland, 6 May 2022
• Bae needing to win the final hole for the International team to share the cup, stubs a chip.
  — Paul Montella, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Oct. 2019
• Most settled on a squalid stub of a street, near the former city center, called Calle de los Negros.
  — Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 11 May 2022
• They will also be required to submit their last two full-time pay stubs.
  — Alicia Lee, CNN, 12 Apr. 2020
• Finally, cut the stub off just outside the branch collar.
  — Thad Orr, Sunset Magazine, 10 Feb. 2020
• The Iowa skull found in Page County, Iowa features one intact canine and one stub.
  — Steven Hill, Field & Stream, 4 Apr. 2023
• Three fingers were gone, stubs now, his right hand a pincer of thumb and forefinger.
  — Tim Requarth, Longreads, 22 Oct. 2019
• There are also check stubs from Trump’s payments to Cohen.
  — Rosalind S. Helderman, Perry Stein, Ann E. Marimow, Shayna Jacobs, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Apr. 2023
• Those fans who paid for parking to Saturday’s games can use their parking stub to park at any home game the rest of the 2021 season.
  — Alyssa Hertel, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2021
• After the branch falls free, cut the remaining stub of wood that’s left, leaving the branch collar intact.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 17 July 2023
• Trimming away stubs and removing dead branches from plants helps promote their natural shape and creates room for new growth.
  — Noor Adatia, Sacramento Bee, 31 Jan. 2024

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stub

2 of 2 verb

• A while back, Jaime was alone with the kids, and Abigail stubbed her toe.
  — Andrew Theen, OregonLive.com, 18 June 2017
• Make sure to include your tax bill stub with your check.
  — Sam Boyer, cleveland, 21 Jan. 2022
• Let’s give the Steelers one toe-stubbing in that stretch.
  — Michael Rosenberg, SI.com, 30 Oct. 2017
• This was not the Raiders stubbing their toe on a couple of fumbles.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Oct. 2017
• On Alabama’s opening possession of the game, Tua stubbed his toe on the grass and dropped the ball.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 10 Nov. 2019
• From Luke's crash into the stairs to Greg's falling through the floor to me stubbing my little toe on the glider.
  — Julia Emmanuele, Peoplemag, 24 May 2023
• Our knees stubbed into the concrete, chipping away at our morale.
  — Mike Kotsopoulos, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Apr. 2018
• So if seniors have stubbed out their smokes, what are the effects of being overweight or obese?
  — Erin Arvedlund, Philly.com, 13 Dec. 2017
• Lewis has had a gun pointed at him three times and a cigarette stubbed out on his forehead once.
  — Todd C. Frankel, chicagotribune.com, 16 May 2018
• Cigarettes were stubbed into the holes where a tiny pig once lived near a window molding.
  — Domenica Bongiovanni, Indianapolis Star, 10 Mar. 2020
• Running from a crazed killer in the dark can definitely cause eye strain, as well as stubbed toes and, probably, death at the hands of a crazed killer.
  — Kelly Kazek | [e-mail], AL.com, 13 Oct. 2017
• Still, Purdue needs to get itself off the mat and get right again after stubbing its toe earlier this month.
  — Nick Baumgardner, Detroit Free Press, 28 Feb. 2018
• Miami is having way too much fun to stub its toe on the league’s most miserable misfits.
  — Mark Craig, Star Tribune, 15 Oct. 2020
• Most people break a toe by stubbing it or dropping something on it, according to the Mayo Clinic.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 29 Feb. 2020
• The Buckeyes recruit at a similar level to Alabama and Georgia and don’t tend to stub their toe against teams they’re supposed to beat.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 25 Nov. 2022
• Instead of continuing to flourish, the Brewers stubbed their toes in a big way, dropping two of three over the weekend at Guaranteed Rate Field to one of the worst teams in the majors.
  — Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 June 2018
• Every now and then, Don would stub his toe, and occasionally something would fall on him, but nothing very heavy.
  — Jack Handey, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2020
• The Frogs started 7-0 before stubbing a toe at Iowa State to start a 3-3 stretch that included two losses to Oklahoma, one in the league championship game.
  — Carlos Mendez, star-telegram, 23 Dec. 2017
• After stubbing its toe in postseason appearances of years past, SMB was picked to lose many of its playoff games last fall, proving doubters wrong each time.
  — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 28 Aug. 2019
• How many young Americans have stubbed their pronouncing toes upon it.
  — Rosa Inocencio Smith, The Atlantic, 5 June 2017
• It’s hard to see Notre Dame stubbing its toe more than once at home this year – and probably not at all – but a third road loss isn’t hard to imagine at Stanford to close out the regular season.
  — Mike Berardino, Indianapolis Star, 28 Aug. 2019
• No doubt last week’s announcement has stubbed out any future efforts to continue.
  — Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
• The blin is so ubiquitous in Russia that the word is also used as a mild expletive: a polite Russian might mutter it after stubbing her toe, in place of the curse word blyad.
  — Talia Lavin, The New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2017
• Already stubbed for a bathroom and bar, this currently unfinished space can be tailored to a buyer’s delight.
  — kansascity, 12 May 2017
• The city that never sleeps has always had a strong illicit cannabis market and adult-use legalization is unlikely to stub it out anytime soon.
  — Will Yakowicz, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2021
• In a movie with a lot of speechifying — a character could stub his toe and Sorkin would give him prepared remarks — Rylance's speeches make the most sense because his Kunstler is crafting a narrative for the jury.
  — Chris Hewitt, Star Tribune, 15 Oct. 2020
• There is a palpable excitement, a few potential stars in the making, and the bathroom doorway in my room in the media village is equipped with the latest toe-stubbing technology.
  — Michael Rosenberg, SI.com, 9 Feb. 2018
• Bier successfully injected the cocaine mix into Hildebrandt’s spine — so successfully, in fact, that Bier was able to stub out a cigar on his assistant, jam a needle through his thigh muscle down to the femur and smash him in the shin and testicles.
  — Christian Millman, Discover Magazine, 23 Oct. 2019
• While the schools remained open, providing children a safe place to go, there were no classes and many parents were looking for other ways to occupy their kids, an endeavor most of us know is as much fun as stubbing your toe repeatedly.
  — Rex Huppke, chicagotribune.com, 18 Oct. 2019
• From stubbed toes to cardiac arrests, open water lifeguards are trained to act as first responders for all manner of medical emergencies that can happen at the beach, often putting them in close proximity to beach patrons.
  — Megan McCluskey, Time, 18 May 2020

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024