What is "jabbing"

Usage examples of "jabbing".

Automatics were jabbing deadly tongues of flame, while revolvers were merely glinting in the light, as their owners swung them to aim.

Leia said mechanically, a sudden thought jabbing like a blade into her.

Luke warned one of them, jabbing toward the floater cart with his ribene.

Bothan snapped, jabbing a hand at the lightsaber hanging unobtrusively beneath her loose overjacket.

Lando breathed, leaping up the short stairway and jabbing at the bridge door release.

The guide raised his arm a fraction, made a jabbing motion with his hand.

Eye watched from his position on the periphery, jabbing only occasionally with his crab-hilted knife.

The man arched and convulsed and Niall swung away from him, dropping to one knee under the rushing attack of a second foe and jabbing upward with the bloody dagger.

Ahead a crowd of demonstrators marched down the center of the road, jabbing signs into the air, shouting at the line of trucks and cars.

They pushed toward the edge of the crowd and hurried past a group of men jabbing at one another.

She could make out the dark figure crouched on the brick patio outside, jabbing some kind of tool at the lock.

She yanked open the door and threw herself inside, jabbing the key now into the ignition.

The medical nanonic package was contracting round her left leg, it felt as though a thousand acid-tipped needles were jabbing into the roasted gouges as the furry inner surface knitted with her flesh.

The meazel gave Sefris a shove, its filthy, likely disease-bearing talons jabbing her but not quite breaking the skin.

Kesk started to laugh, but it hurt his chest like the jabbing of a knife, so he choked it off.