Almost-finished cigar

Usage examples of stub.

Averitt placed the stub of his chalk down on the little ledge under the blackboard and tried unsuccessfully to rub the white dust of his hands.

Irritated, Bookman stubbed out his cigarette and continued to address Kyril Montana.

Esther laughed suddenly, a bubbling, girlish laugh, and then pretended that she had laughed because Jane had stubbed her toe.

Nancy stubbed out his cigarillo, then he flicked an imaginary speck of ash off his yellow gloves.

He bent down at the foot of the stone monument, stubbed out his cigarillo on the earth, and left it there, like an offering.

Beaten haggard, he stood cloakless in his travel-stained leathers, while draught from the door left ajar at his back flared and harried the stubs of the candles.

A line of filthy smoke was drawn slowly across the face of New Crobuzon, marking it like a stub of pencil, as a late train went east on the Dexter Line, through Gidd and Barguest Bridge, on over the water towards Lud Fallow and Sedim Junction.

New Crobuzon, marking it like a stub of pencil, as a late train went east on the Dexter Line, through Gidd and Barguest Bridge, on over the water towards Lud Fallow and Sedim Junction.

The hacendado nodded and stubbed out his cigarette and pushed back his chair.

One of the defects of the program was the fact that it was, as Jorn had suspected, based on a lie, whereas a good deception ought to contain some fundamental stone of truth to stub the toes of the sane and the suspicious.

It was so ironic to be protected by the same jundies who an hour ago had been stubbing out their cigarettes on our necks.

So when someone is making a mountain out of a molehill, they are pretending that something is as horrible as a war or a ruined picnic when it is really only as horrible as a stubbed toe.

The two stubs, with their shiny pink flesh and smooth, nailless tips, were things of wonder to her.

While squinting through his ophthalmoscope, he carefully rotated the protruding spindle stub to the left.

Not bothering to test the door set into the garden wall, he threw his boots over the top into the lane beyond and, quick as a rat up a drainpipe, scrambled after them, stubbing his toe badly in the process, pausing only long enough on the other side to retrieve his boots before making good his escape down the lane and into the Kings Road beyond.