How To Use Jabbing In A Sentence
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Although a rough screenplay now existed in the form of a baggy and overlong first draft, I was to be found wielding the fountain pen or jabbing at the typewriter less and less.
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The soldier was jabbing his gun at the cowling of the engine or at the propeller itself.
SKORPION'S DEATH
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He kept jabbing at the paper cup with his pencil.
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The way he was jabbing his fork at the pasta sort of showed his frustration with that too.
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Jabbing me back, exactly as the infant Cymbeline once did with her puny fists!
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See here," he continued, "jabbing," with great noise and force the compasses with which he was measuring off our position, into the chart, as if that was in fault, while Fosset and O'Neil laughed.
The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea
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Jace raised Samandiriel, but Alec had already dispatched the creature with a jabbing blow from his guisarme.
Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series
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He pauses, squinting down at the camera's screen and jabbing various buttons.
Times, Sunday Times
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There's a film of him doing 'hi-def neck lipo', jabbing his tool under someone's skin to help reduce wattle.
Times, Sunday Times
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Bochy said, jabbing an imaginary needle into his palm.
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The butter was still immured in the back of the pantry, under the baleful guard of the newly-farrowed sow, but Ian had managed to lean in and snatch a pot of jam from the shelf as I stood by with the broom, jabbing it into the sow's gnashing jaws as she made little darting charges at Ian's legs.
Drums of Autumn
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I grimaced, crossing my fingers and jabbing the starter button for the engine.
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Then a borderman beside him cried out, jabbing his finger back toward the Pantheon.
Chosen Of The Gods
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I saw the foremost swimmers struck upon the head, or pushed away by violent "jabbing" from the oars and handspikes.
Ran Away to Sea
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He kept jabbing at the paper cup with his pencil.
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I married your mother," he'd add unnecessarily, jabbing a thumb in the direction of his wife of more than half a century.
Charlie Carillo: The Search for an Old Sailor
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Mr. Gilmer kept working him, jabbing at him, trying to rile him up or rattle him by suggesting that if he had been innocent he wouldn't have run.
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Ketara repeated, picking up her fork and jabbing it into her salad.
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Groaning, I attempted to sit up as I felt the sharp jabbing a of a bed coil that had long lost its spring shove its way into my side.
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Some, reaching the crenelation again, were struck back by the jabbing spears of their own men, screaming at them.
Renegades Of Gor
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There's a film of him doing 'hi-def neck lipo', jabbing his tool under someone's skin to help reduce wattle.
Times, Sunday Times
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Jabbing with the point he kept off Alexei's attack until the reaction of their mid-air collision made them drift apart again.
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The brain is good at converting stresses into physical symptoms, so it is not so far-fetched to believe it might work in reverse; that jabbing at various nerves might produce chemical effects in the brain that can "unblock" that energy which the brain is diverting from one system to another, such as from the worrying-about-work-and-boys neurons to the jaw and stomach neurons.
N@ked Under My Lab Coat
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Likewise, contrary to the misapprehensions of fencing historians, thrusts were not delivered in stabbing or jabbing action.
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Others, such as jabbing her repeatedly with a pin, he did not.
The Soulforge
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Being six foot two is not a good thing when it rains - you constantly run the risk of an umbrella jabbing into your neck or, worse, eye.
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Our generation's pseudo-hip-hop air jabbing and furtive wiggles just didn't hack it.
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Jabbing at the wood, they remove chips three to six inches tong.
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After jabbing him early on, Rigby let his warrior instincts get the better of him and he ended up slugging it out in a fight which had the Wythenshawe Forum crowd on its feet.
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I ended up sowing a few peas in half frozen soil, poking, make that jabbing the holes with the dibber.
Mish Mash Monday-Late February Edition « Fairegarden
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With jabbing movements, she rolls a cigarette, licks the end and holds it to the candle flame.
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Leslie smiled and turned back to her sewing, moving what looked like a shirt sleeve along the jabbing threaded needle.
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The protester was jabbing a finger aggressively at a policeman.
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He kept jabbing at the paper cup with his pencil.
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There's a film of him doing 'hi-def neck lipo', jabbing his tool under someone's skin to help reduce wattle.
Times, Sunday Times
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Gnat has a bag with medical tools, and like millions of children, she enjoys jabbing blunt plastic hypos into the dog's butt.
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He pauses, squinting down at the camera's screen and jabbing various buttons.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yeah, there\'s that whole first black nominee for president thing, but more significant is the fact that the greeting, which has been described by confused white journalists as a \ "fist bump, \" \ "closed-fist high-five, \" \ "a frat-tastic fist bump\" and \ "\'Hezbollah\ 'style fist-jabbing, \" is finally being introduced to mainstream culture.
Katie Halper: The Obama Pound: In Historic Moment, White People Exposed to "Fist Bump" for First Time
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Mr. Mahy, was overheard yelling, "You're Luke Skywalker and I'm Darth Vader !" while jabbing his opponent.
Creative Class: Fencing and Fashion
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Ashley Giles lasted two balls, jabbing at a ball outside off stump sending a catch to Matthew Hayden in the gully, as Pietersen could only stand and stare at the non-striker's end.
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There's a film of him doing 'hi-def neck lipo', jabbing his tool under someone's skin to help reduce wattle.
Times, Sunday Times
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She got up, jabbing Savvy softly on the arm with her elbow, grabbed a bunch of hardcover texts from the professor's desk and started to give one to each person.
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York threw his body at the man, his sword jabbing at the man’s torso.
Fateful Journeys
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He just used to keep punching and jabbing opponents, who could not get near him to land a KO blow.
The Sun
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Stop jabbing me with your elbow!
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Jabbing with the point he kept off Alexei's attack until the reaction of their mid-air collision made them drift apart again.
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Part of the time I feel the point of the barrel jabbing at my neck.
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I'm warning you," he said, jabbing a beringed finger at her.
EVERVILLE
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And I could not get over the idea of jabbing a needle so deeply and blindly into someone's chest.
Whoops!
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All he knew was that everyone wanted it, wanted it badly, and that he was having a hard time keeping it…The sense of personal safety it gave him, the awareness that here at last was one object which he could actually depend on, the almost positive knowledge that it would one day actually save him, all of these comforted him as he lay rolled up in his two blankets and one shelterhalf with the rocky ground jabbing him in the flanks or as he toiled backbreakingly all day long at the never-ending job of putting up barbed wire.
Ecstatic Days » 2009 » June
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On April 13, a man in black with a curved sword jabbed at the ATM, then smashed his way through the glass front door, then roamed around, leaping over counters and jabbing at more things with the sword before departing empty-handed (and bleeding).
Creative Loafing Atlanta
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Lori's face paled, and she gripped the edge of the table tightly, the corners jabbing into her palms.
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Eventually bored, Covalt struck back, his sword jabbing at his opponent's exposed chest.
Kingdoms of Light
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He smiled again, squinting and tossing his head left and right in short, jabbing motions.
The Will
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And she led the way, back down the marble staircase that overlooks a tiled swimming pool set in a conservatory with vast tropical palms very nearly jabbing at the windowed ceiling.
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He just used to keep punching and jabbing opponents, who could not get near him to land a KO blow.
The Sun
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It would be a jabbing contest with both fighters almost a mirror of one another.
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She set the kettle on the ground, knelt to search for the petcock, and only then turned on the flashlight, remembering as she always did when she saw its jabbing circle of light, how much it had cost and how Clovis was always having to buy batteries for it.
The Dollmaker
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The researchers also used measurements from a 2003 study to estimate the impact of using a thrusted rather than thrown spear, the kind of jabbing that Neandertals are thought to have employed.
Science Blog - Science news straight from the source
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As I struggled to crawl towards the stairwell a sharp jabbing pain of my left ankle.