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.
  • The idea is to leave slight stubs.
    — Michele Laufik, Martha Stewart, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Tear off the stub at the top of the ballot.
    — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 1 June 2026
  • Tear off the stub at the top of the ballot.
    — Angela Rodriguez, Sacbee.com, 2 June 2026
  • In other words, don’t leave stubs.
    — Neil Sperry, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Don’t leave short branch stubs behind.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Cut just above a bud so that a flush of growth will screen the stubs.
    — Katherine Owen, Southern Living, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Try to avoid cutting them off leaving stubs.
    — Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Move along, boomers, and take your old-school paper ticket stubs with you.
    — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 26 Mar. 2023
  • The wood in a branch stub won't heal as effectively as the wood right next to a main stem.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • Three fingers were gone, stubs now, his right hand a pincer of thumb and forefinger.
    — Tim Requarth, Longreads, 22 Oct. 2019
  • Include the remittance stub or write the account number on the check.
    — cleveland, 6 May 2022
  • The move to digital stubs has cut down on old-school forgery, but other avenues for concern have emerged.
    — Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Pieces of junk — jars, paper scraps, ticket stubs, a nail — are labeled and neatly displayed on the walls.
    — Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post, 7 June 2023
  • The source of the leak was also caused by an inactive Driscopipe 8000 stub.
    — Amaris Encinas, The Arizona Republic, 23 Sep. 2021
  • Otherwise, expect to pay closer to $100 per stub.
    — Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 5 May 2026
  • Otherwise, expect to pay closer to $400 per stub.
    — Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 7 May 2026
  • Wristbands are expected to go fast, so lock in for the presale (and post-sale) and consider other ways to get stubs.
    — Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 24 June 2026
  • Before bed, Agnes adds Garth’s cigarette stub to her grab bag of mementos.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 6 May 2026
  • To prevent disease, prune on sunny days and remove small branch stubs regularly.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • The driver's side includes pockets for storing maps, cash, parking stubs and other items one might need quick access to on the road.
    — New Atlas, 11 Aug. 2025
  • When a strike hits, the shockwave is channeled into these stub tunnels rather than penetrating the main complex.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 4 Mar. 2026
  • For decades, the line existed as little more than a stub—just two stops past its junction with the north-to-south B Line.
    — Oren Peleg, New Yorker, 9 May 2026
  • The flame shrunk them to stout stubs, but the mesquite smoke was a perfect fit, providing a brazen backdrop for the lemongrass and chile-flavored juiciness.
    — Cesar Hernandez, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Sep. 2023
  • What appear to be secondary market stubs may actually be coming from the team hosting the event itself.
    — Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 10 Nov. 2025
  • The Iowa skull found in Page County, Iowa features one intact canine and one stub.
    — Steven Hill, Field & Stream, 4 Apr. 2023
  • SeatGeek boasts the cheapest ticket on this list, coming out to $189 for a stub to the second to last show.
    — Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 24 Apr. 2026
  • All other shows will ring you up for $150 to $500, with most stubs starting in the $200s.
    — Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 15 Apr. 2026

stub

2 of 2 verb
  • Our knees stubbed into the concrete, chipping away at our morale.
    — Mike Kotsopoulos, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Apr. 2018
  • This was not the Raiders stubbing their toe on a couple of fumbles.
    — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Oct. 2017
  • Kizzi, who spent all day in pain after stubbing her toe on a trash can, tosses and turns all night.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Joe couldn't stub his toe without ten people wanting to run at him waving bales of gauze.
    — CBS News, 31 May 2026
  • 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
  • So if seniors have stubbed out their smokes, what are the effects of being overweight or obese?
    — Erin Arvedlund, Philly.com, 13 Dec. 2017
  • The mendicant stubbed out his smoke and lit another one.
    — Literary Hub, 21 Nov. 2025
  • Cigarettes were stubbed into the holes where a tiny pig once lived near a window molding.
    — Domenica Bongiovanni, Indianapolis Star, 10 Mar. 2020
  • In 1828, a man named Benjamin Parks stubbed his toe on a stone.
    — John Archibald, Southern Living, 11 June 2026
  • In 1828, a man named Benjamin Parks stubbed his toe on a stone.
    — John Archibald, Southern Living, 25 May 2025
  • 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
  • Meanwhile, a woman stubs out her cigarette in her own ashtray, a mini glass jam jar.
    — Tim Spiers, New York Times, 20 June 2025
  • No doubt last week’s announcement has stubbed out any future efforts to continue.
    — Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
  • How many young Americans have stubbed their pronouncing toes upon it.
    — Rosa Inocencio Smith, The Atlantic, 5 June 2017
  • Conservators later found burn marks on the walls where people had stubbed out their cigarettes.
    — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • On Alabama’s opening possession of the game, Tua stubbed his toe on the grass and dropped the ball.
    — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 10 Nov. 2019
  • Oz said the bigger issue was pregnant women taking acetaminophen for minor issues like a headache or stubbed toe.
    — Colin Meyn, The Hill, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Video shows the marine serpent swimming by the shore in the clear shallow waters while stubbed beachgoers surround it.
    — Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2025
  • 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, PEOPLE, 16 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • Its short overhangs, boxy but round-cornered shape, and stubbed hood all remind one of the Bus of the 1970s.
    — New Atlas, 7 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • Already stubbed for a bathroom and bar, this currently unfinished space can be tailored to a buyer’s delight.
    — kansascity, 12 May 2017
  • 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 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
  • But what’s more arrogant and absurd than referring to a 5-24 record in the last 29 games as stubbing one’s toe?
    — Pat Leonard, Hartford Courant, 5 Jan. 2026
  • At one point a barefoot Christian Hubicki stubbed his open toe on some coral, started bleeding, and medical had to come in to treat it.
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Dipping sauces altered the fate of uneaten pizza crusts, making eating the sauceless, cheeseless stubs something to look forward to.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 22 Apr. 2026
  • These societies inevitably fail and are never as productive and successful as countries where freedom of thought and expression are not stubbed out via fear of reprisal.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 July 2025

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