STUB in a Sentence

Learn STUB from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
Example sentences for STUB, such as:
1. He stubbed his toe on a rock.
2. I stubbed my toe on the step.
3. I've stubbed my toe on a rock.
4. He stubbed his match on the plate.
5. I can't write with this pencil stub.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of STUB
stub
 v.  clear of weeds by uprooting them
 n.  a torn part of a ticket returned to the holder as a receipt
Classic Sentence:
1  She hoped that Edna would go to see her in the city, and wrote her address with the stub of a pencil on a piece of card which she found in her pocket.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XVI
2  If you seriously desire to deceive me you must change your tobacconist; for when I see the stub of a cigarette marked Bradley, Oxford Street, I know that my friend Watson is in the neighbourhood.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12. Death on the Moor
3  He stubbed his match on the plate.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 13
Example Sentence:
1  Signs across the entrances warn all visitors to stub out their cigarettes.
2  I can't write with this pencil stub.
3  I stubbed my toe against the foot of the table.
4  He stubbed his toe on a rock.
5  I stubbed my toe on the step.
6  I've stubbed my toe on a rock.