How To Use Stub In A Sentence

I have a lot of my father in me and I am as stubborn as a mule. Times, Sunday Times
They are weird stubby boats, and you have to do a lot more work to propel and keep them on a straight course through the water.
He wears tee shirts and a designer stubble and is always two steps ahead of himself.
I'm too stubborn to admit that I'm in love with him.
There were brighter pictures, of early Mexican-Californian life, a pastel of twilight eucalyptus with a sunset-tipped mountain beyond, by Reimers, a moonlight by Peters, and a Griffin stubble-field across which gleamed and smoldered California summer hills of tawny brown and purple-misted, wooded canyons. CHAPTER VIII

The stube, or stove, of a German inn, derived its name from the great hypocaust, which is always strongly heated to secure the warmth of the apartment in which it is placed. Anne of Geierstein
Roger appeared with a plump stubborn Welsh pony, attached to a funny little cart which he gayly informed them was a "gingle. The Spanish Chest
The mayor, the imam, the sheik and some stubbled men all took seats around the long table.
More sweat fell down his stubby chin as he tried to avert his eyes away from her steady gaze.
We can have it come right off our paystub bi-weekly if we so choose .... everyone's doing it you know, blech. Miscellaneous
She stubbed her toe and managed to release the guitar from its holding and it twanged on the ground, waking the two very unstable-temperamental parents below.
At home, you can change stubborn minds. The Sun
He stubbed his toe before her.
Outsiders gradually brought influences like barbecue sauce and side dishes, but the core Texas values remain stubbornly intact at these old school joints: meat seasoned only with salt, pepper and smoke, and served without plates or utensils. You gonna eat that? Random musings on food and life in Orange County, California » Don’t mess with Texas
There would be stubble after the crop's harvested, therefore cattle feed, especially in the end of the dry.
But if it shall be otherwise -- if they stubbornly, sullenly persist in cherishing and manifesting the spirit of treason, making their motto to read, Bound, but not broken, then let the severities of immutable justice be meted out to them: let them die the death. A Discourse on the Death of Abraham Lincoln
This little package of dense black fur is fearless but unaggressive, happy to please but not a pushover, a tad stubborn but a complete lovebug.
You can become your own worst enemy with that stubborn refusal to accept the inevitable. The Sun
The image shows a slightly chubby-faced man with receding, dark cropped hair, tanned skin and stubble.
The figure wearing dark suit, open-necked shirt and stubble, sheltering beneath an umbrella from the torrential rain outside a London cinema, could hardly look more glum.
The observers of this law may be called sociable, (the Latins call them commodi); the contrary, stubborn, insociable, forward, intractable. Leviathan
But a stubborn, argumentative child may try to draw you into too many debates as you try to establish a connection.
To assemble it, you put the pencil stub into the hole of the spool and stuck the pin straight up in the middle of the eraser.
The presentation of this "Judas," polemicizing as it was, was probably never meant to take on the historical and theological dimensions it has, traveling through the last two thousand years and leading up to the present, but with a stubborn toughness it has endured. Robert Eisenman: Redemonizing Judas: Gospel Fiction or Gospel Truth?
Stub acme thread on stem provides rapid open - close operation.
Lions remain stubborn and untameable symbols of a wilderness as rightly unknowable as they themselves are.
He observes the annual round of sowers and barley harvesters, goes stubblewalking, and contemplates how the modern combine has forever changed life for rural farmers.
God loves us deeply, intensely, and he cares about even the most incredibly lost and stubbornly unrepentant sheep.
I laughed at loud at her stubborn and willful spirit.
I think there will be stubborn resistance. Times, Sunday Times
An equine print after the style of Stubbs adorned the longest wall.
Titian with Duccio, for example - making them consecutive leads to disconcerting contiguities before and aft, Crivelli with Campin, Velázquez with Stubbs... Evening Standard - Home
While walking he stubbed his toe on a sharp rock.
Don't let this week's majorly stubborn vibes make you resistant to information about new ways of doing things.
The Savage family consists of a bunch of stubborn hayseeds that get real angry when crossed.
A network of tingly sensations traveled pleasantly through his stubble face. Talking Heads « A Fly in Amber
It is a stubborn thing resisting the call to self-annihilation, deadening pain, and compromising with what is simply wrong. Lonni Collins Pratt: The Sacred Power Of Hope
It was a sweet repast in the swank abode of internationally renowned interior designer Bill Stubbs Friday afternoon.
Authority is there to counteract the piggy part of the self, the part that wants nothing more than to wallow in muck, doing nothing, staying stubbornly inert and apathetic. An Education « Tales from the Reading Room
Stubborn had survived one of the worst attacks of the war, despite the loss of her aft hydroplanes and rudder, and had carried out the deepest-ever dive at the time, to an estimated 165m!
Quite a few of them would even stub out their cigarettes so enraptured, and intimidated, would they be by the blizzard of technical virtuosity that we, today, take for granted. Debra Levine: Ballets Russes Updated: Aspen Santa Fe Ballet Turns 15
The famous graziers and other people, how well willing soever they be taken to be, will not be known of their wealth, and by miscontentment of their loss, be grown stubborn and liberal of talk. The Reign of Mary Tudor
I definitely think stubble is the way to go for him. Twilight Lexicon » Evening News
But, I also admit to once having seen my advisor's paystub on his desk (he had given me and most of his advisees a set of keys), and I didn't look away. That StatCounter Paradox
A bobcat is another wild cat, about half the size of a cougar, with a stubby tail rather than a long one.
After the harvest the peasants enjoyed the collective right to glean and to graze livestock on the stubble.
The stubble lay scattered with wheat grains, millions of them. Times, Sunday Times
But first and foremost, it is a waltz, and that stubborn three-four tempo should inform every bar. Globe and Mail
We have to admit that stubborn gerontocracy has been a major obstacle to reforming politics due to the aged politicians' obstinacy and narrow-mindedness.
Moving up his cheek, she could feel some rough stubble of his unshaven face.
A simple avenue of eucalyptus trees cuts through olive groves and fields of stubble. Times, Sunday Times
I am trying to strike a balance between assertive and fair and stubborn and inflexible.
Charles stubbornly resists any metanarrative based on a wishful need to infuse a random and absurd universe with meaning.
My thoughts, however, stubbornly refused to cling to the issue and when a hoarse croak broke loose from high above me, I started violently.
For stubborn makeup stains use nonoily makeup remover, pretreat and launder as usual. The Royal Guide to Spot and Stain Removal
On this occasion, despite two hours’ cooking (with bicarb, salt added at the end), the chickpeas had remained stubbornly crunchy.
His chin bore a thick growth of stubble.
The basic approach is to apply a slurry of fine alumina powder to a model of the tooth stub.
I am always stubbing my toe, smashing my arms against walls, tripping over, scratching myself.
But it will burn, and that is what our fuel truck did, stubbornly and with thick billows of oily black smoke that would have prevented us from smothering the blaze with sand even if we had not been too tired to lift our shovels.
Firefighters said the man had emptied his cigarette stubs into a bin without checking if they were alight or not.
His once bouffant hairdo had looked lank and stringy, and the perfectly unshaven designer stubble could not hide the lines on his face.
Try to find a way to turn her stubbornness from a weakness to a strength.
The thing that could easily be changed is the stubborn refusal to let technology play a part for referees. Times, Sunday Times
If others are stubborn, and that's likely, you'll just plant an idea in their mind, then wait till they suggest it as if it was something they just thought of.
Roger was a shy, sweet Jewish boy with very short black hair, a little stub of a beard and pierced ears.
Around the circular pit were crowded all the races of Garden, or rather, all those races which had not been exterminated resisting the evil Wizards: the hooded Druids, brachiate tree dwellers from the Great Forest, a band of fuzzies in their bright orange robes, many lizard soldiers hissing and laughing and shouting, stubby little Marsh Folk, and hundreds of mutants. Prayers To Broken Stones
Young, intense, lean, charismatic and stubbly, the two are separated by the great cultural wall that keeps Barcelona and Real Madrid apart. Pep Guardiola the extra-special one adds realism to romanticism
We could've seen why Sara is so stubborn, or gotten some further insight into Hitchens' obsessive nature.
Hay is of less value than wood . Stubble is useless and worthless.
Helene got him a topflight classical guitar teacher, who found the boy stubbornly autodidactic.
In all but a couple of cases, the issued stub is present. Important Hawaii Proofs in Long Beach Auction : Coin Collecting News
He hoped his parents would not be difficult for he was not in the mood for their stubborn obstinacy.
They told me you were stubborn-necked, but I have obeyed commands. Chapter 11
Since neither Jewel nor Corvi had anything more than a set of stubby, carefully filed down nails, Zhaneel laughed. The White Gryphon
The regime is crumbling fast and its proud, stubborn old President faces the imminent prospect of defeat. Times, Sunday Times
You can use ticket stubs or ribbons or receipts or photos or envelopes or napkins to mark your place in books.
Then God sent down on him and on the stubborn unbelievers with him a thunderblast from the heavens of His power, which destroyed them all with a mighty clamour, and neither he nor any of his company set eyes on the city. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III
Obvious malodour is not perceived by others although the patient stubbornly complains of its existence.
From then - thanks to the stubbornness of the Queen's back line - the match seemed to fizzle out, and by the end the scoreline probably flattered the victors.
Her eyes trailed upwards and stopped at the small stubborn cleft in his square chin.
Jackie seemed to float upwards and Sam stubbed his toe.
The beach is deserted but for a stubborn few, and this Soviet edifice is now but a window to a bygone era.
All sorts of pasta can be used, from thin sheets of lasagne to stubby penne or rigatoni.
They were accused of the stubborn refusal to accept Christ's Godhead and His sacrifice.
Within these lines she made little dots at the top and bottom of stubby perpendicular strokes, and strange interlineal hieroglyphics, and sweeping curves, all of which would have puzzled an The Place of Honeymoons
In real life characters often remain stubbornly immune; life-changing events can leave lives oddly unchanged. Sarfraz Manzoor: My family said they would boycott my wedding
Chihuahuas are also very stubborn and the "human" or babylike manner in the way many are treated by their owners just exacerbates this problem. Pets
Fleetwood that the owner of the Theatre was a "stubborne fellow," and advised that he be sent for and "bounde" -- would have given advice and information so unfriendly to their own manager, and there cannot be the slightest doubt that Burbage was "the owner" of the Theatre from 1576 to Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592
A good 1500 meters stretched from the stubby bow back to the equally stubby stern.
He ended up in jail because he was peculiarly stubborn, and quite possibly also stupid, but mostly because he was unlucky.
At the top the representation of women lingers at around a stubborn 15%. Times, Sunday Times
He also visited her grave accompanied by his mother, stubbed out cigarettes and swore at photographers.
Cut grease and stubborn leftover food from plates and glasses by adding a few lemon slices or a tablespoon of vinegar to soapy dishwater.
These have been due to either the release line twisting around the link knife, or wheat stubble becoming jammed in the ‘v’ of the blades.
She hated thing to be orderly; prearranged objects seemed cold and stubborn.
Also, to refuse to fold when a player knows that he or she is beat is stubbornness, not poker.
He had the round, deep-chested, big-hearted, well-coupled body of the ideal mountain pony, and his head and neck were true thoroughbred, slender, yet full, with lovely alert ears not too small to be vicious nor too large to be stubborn mulish. ON THE MAKALOA MAT
At best, you're squaring up against people calling your Emperor naked and who stubbornly refuse to read your scholarly books on his stitchwork. Does Being Exist?
Call me stubborn but once I've started something then I'm going to finish it.
Hopes of a full recovery are dashed by cancer cells' stubborn resistance to conventional treatments. Times, Sunday Times
An enormous cardboard cutout of a short, stubby penguin lay on the ground, the beady black eyes staring up at her dumbly. MINUTES TO BURN
We do not see that, while we still affect by all means a rigid external formality, we may as soon fall again into a gross conforming stupidity, a stark and dead congealment of wood and hay and stubble, forced and frozen together, which is more to the sudden degenerating of a Church than many subdichotomies of petty schisms. Areopagitica
My lifelong entanglement with pay phones dates me; when I was young they were just there, a given, often as stubborn and uncongenial as the curbstone underfoot.
Many overseas haulage firms have only third-party insurance and fight claims stubbornly. Times, Sunday Times
Roundup can be used if thistles, Johnsongrass, or other perennial or biennial weeds are present in the small grain stubble.
In part, that's because too many of us still find ourselves holding the short end of the pay stub.
In the open-field areas of northern France they could glean after harvest and their cattle could graze on the stubble.
He was too stubborn to admit that he was wrong.
And the people who are back here now are mostly eally determined to make this work, despite the obstactles, a certain gratifying stubborness at work. Hip Hip Hooray!
His stubborn innings in difficult conditions yesterday was a victory for concentration over instinct. Times, Sunday Times
I am watching him extract stubborn weeds, while I and my big pregnant belly look on from the grass.
The distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. Albert Einstein
Now she set the figure on a pedestal, a blank-faced, bulgy-eyed little goat gazing into space, its wide stubby tail sweeping over its back while it grasped a large baseball in its hand; a sort of ghoulish beauty now emanated from the figure. Antonia Cruz Rafael: the ceramics of Ocumicho, Michoacan
American Episcopalians maintain stubborn resistance to warnings by the world Anglican Communion that they have recklessly broken fellowship.
Set in the 17th century, it is the story of a stubborn old woman trying to keep herself and her children alive during the 30 - Years War by following armies with a cartload of scavenged goods to sell to the soldiers.
Elsinore, this time due to me and my own stubbornness, is rolling in the wind and heading nowhere in a light breeze at the rate of nothing but driftage per hour. CHAPTER XLVI
You will handle family life better and can get a stubborn relative to let the grudges go. The Sun
It's amazing what a six-pack and designer stubble can do for your love life. The Sun
The spell was broken one day by a particularly stubborn fisherman who used clubs to beat his way through the grey mist.
Yetwhile my mind spins furiously with all these things I should do andshould want to do, my bodyfeels awfully stubborn about remaining perched in one spot, complaining with increased aches and stiffness about gardneing orbiking, invoking extra effort to read with eyes that can no longer bring fine printinto focus. 2008 July « Becca’s Byline
She's willful, quiet, and stubborn, but, above all, passionate.
And now poor Stubb goes to bed upon a mattrass that is all too soft; would it were stuffed with brushwood! Moby Dick; or the Whale
I cannot cope with that boy; he is stubborn.
After 13 years playing the stubborn, long-pocketed and irascible Inspector Morse, this week will see the veteran actor finally wave goodbye to his most famous role.
He's young, stubbly and scruffy, a slouchy cool that makes one think that Kate must be cool and edgy, too. 'Kate-alikes': Would-be princesses find a new muse in Kate Middleton
Australian record companies appear to cling stubbornly to traditional business models.
It has been noted in the accounts of the Chicago Plan and the General College of the University of Minnesota, as well as in this brief account of the Columbia Plan, that departmentalism becomes less stubborn when cooperative courses are established. Undergraduate Work and the University of North Carolina
She was a stubborn, loyal Aries, the best kind of friend to have.
The cleric's unshaven face is dotted with stubble, for he has been attending at the royal bedside for many hours. 1066: and the Hidden History of the Bayeux Tapestry
The default stub calls unpack (), you see, and PHP 6 needs to be told that the second argument to unpack () is a binary string and not a Unicode string. AvaxHome RSS:
The scene made Lady Peacemaker think of a giant cigarette butt being stubbed out.
I consider her stiff, slender figure, Egyptian in its stubborn angularity. MOON PASSAGE
She would sit there drawing with the pencil stub.
Some are hopeful that interbank lending rates -- still stubbornly elevated -- could start to tick down following the first extended-term TAF, which provides cash loans to deposit-taking banks. Fannie Cuts Support for Mortgage Market
Tax policy would be ruled by stubborn one-third minorities, many among them cruising for policy payoffs to drop their opposition.
Thus the impure sublunary fire conveys neither heat nor light, but as it kindles upon some earthly materials of wood, stubble, or the like; but the nobler and celestial fire in the body of the sun, that works all these effects by a communication of its own virtue, without the interposal of those culinary helps: it affords flame and light, and warmth and all, without fuel. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VI.
He then opens a bottle of vodka and mixes it with two eggs and a cigarette stub before drinking it. The Sun
I stubbed my toe on the step.
Shith stubbed out his cigarette with the toe of his boot, glancing around the perimeter of the house for any prowlers or signs of danger.
The previous administration's stubborn refusal to build more prison places led it into the absurd position of early release. Times, Sunday Times
Marseilles is taken, and put under martial law: lo, at Marseilles, what one besmutted red-bearded corn-ear is this which they cut; -- one gross Man, we mean, with copper-studded face; plenteous beard, or beard-stubble, of a tile-colour? The French Revolution
I couldn't tell if his refusal to talk was simple stubbornness.
You can also get two stubborn friends talking again. The Sun
After harvesting the stubble would be set on fire which also killed new mallee shoots.
He is sporting several days of stubble and a pinstriped second-hand sports jacket over an inside-out T-shirt.
If it's the latter, electronic dance music makes you want to put on sunglasses at midnight and drive your stubbled, tragic self into the night.
Better that it should not have consented to motion, and have held stubbornly to all ancestral ways, than have bred that anachronic spectre. The Egoist
Her voice was soft but stubborn, her mulish chin set.
Then his stubble rasped with the radio mike before he thrust it back into its clip on the dashboard. THE LAST RAVEN
These guys are luscious-haired, stubbly, torrid and tattooed, and often look as if they've tipped up with a hangover.
Kate Gosselin used to mock her ex-husband by calling his manhood "stubby", it has been reported. All - Digital Spy - Entertainment and Media News
But they cut my phone off anyway this afternoon, with no warning, and now I have to wait 48 hours after recieiving my fax with the paid stub from the bank before they'll turn it on. Breakfast in Bed
stubby fingers
Both he and I are secretly harboring feelings for each other but are too stubborn to admit it.
Remove stubborn caramelised turkey grease from the roasting tray by filling it with a solution of biological washing powder.
Coach Huh Jung-Moo and his players will be staying at the Hotel Jagdhof in Neustift im Stubaital, near the Tyrolean town of Innbruck.
When you reach a roadblock, you have three choices: Retreat, ram stubbornly into the barrier, or take a detour and continue forward.
She stubbornly refuses to admit the truth.
As a head Stubbs was charismatic and outwardly eccentric, making it policy to shake every child's hand and say something nice about them.
She replied stubbornly and cocked her chin slightly in defiance.
The plan is taking longer than hoped to produce results because of problems including corruption and stubborn resistance by the Taleban. Times, Sunday Times
If you stub your toe, it is no accident.
That plaguesome Polypheme was Captain Stubbard, begirt with a wife, and endowed with a family almost in excess of benediction, and dancing attendance upon Miss Dolly, too stoutly for his own comfort, in the hope of procuring for his own Penates something to eat and to sit upon. Springhaven
The rocker arms are roller tipped and ride on needle bearings mounted on individual stub shafts.
At home, you can change stubborn minds. The Sun
If I leave it a fortnight or so longer, my facial hair goes from stubble to short beard. Times, Sunday Times
With his day's growth of stubble, short black hair and cockeyed smile he seemed more like a rogue or highwayman than magician.
A cotter pin acts a safety measure to prevent the arm from sliding off the stub.
Before her stretched hillside after barren hillside of jagged dry stubble, testimony of a generation of in tensive fir and cedar harvesting. Kate
Imagine having a dozen TV cameras trained upon you over eight hours with you sporting straggling hair, two-day stubble and dirty fingernails.
The first is shaped by an intentional stubborn resistance. Christianity Today
The cells also have rare short and stubby microvilli.
Strim long grass and then mow the stubble. Times, Sunday Times
Wrap the meat in aluminum foil, along with very fat spare ribs, covered with Stubb's barbeque sauce and an equal amout of vinegar. Why You Miss Ducks (And Other Insights From Our Waterfowl Guide Survey)
At the top the representation of women lingers at around a stubborn 15%. Times, Sunday Times
The paperback stubbornly fought to stay closed because it was new and the binding had yet to be creased.
Then, when I stand up for myself (maybe not always in the best of situations), or when I act stubborn and obstinate, I fight with people.
He raised his head slowly, still unable to quash that last desperate hope clinging like a stubborn weed to his thoughts that this might be a mistake.
They also stubbornly refuse to fit into the traditional liberal versus conservative categories through which the media views the world.
Also, I think gamers can be a rather stubborn, pernickety bunch, but if a game is good then I believe it will find a place within the heart of even the most ardent traditionalist. Come Out And Play
Then, a week later, the ingrown toenail that resulted from her stubbing becomes infected.
Then the skeletons, stubborn bits of flesh and muscle still clinging to the bones, move on to the bug room.
The old man held onto his job stubbornly and would not retire.
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When nociceptors detect a harmful stimulus - such as the hard surface that stubbed your toe - they relay their pain messages in the form of electrical impulses along a peripheral nerve to your spinal cord and brain.
He pointed a stubby finger at a wooden chair opposite him.
He tossed her a smile and strode top 8qg How ironic that in her bid for ersonal creative freewqd Laura, oblivious to the receptionist's flustered dom, she'd wound up chained to the most domineering, gratitude. autocratic, stubborn man on earth. Too Many Bosses
His chin bore a thick growth of stubble.
Emptores, shows the extreme lengths to which this subinfeudation was carried (Stubbs, Select Charters, 478). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
It's also a materialistic time, and anyone with a stubborn personality will become practically immovable under this influence.
The previous administration's stubborn refusal to build more prison places led it into the absurd position of early release. Times, Sunday Times
This conversation has the effect of reviving my old questions not about the war itself — of which I disapproved from the first day, and of which my analysis hasn't varied at all — but about these strange characters whom we in France stubbornly persist in demonizing ( "princes of darkness") or ridiculing with simplistic epithets ( "neo-cons," which can also mean, in French, "neo-dummies"), but who aren't quite as uni-dimensional as they may seem. In the Footsteps of Tocqueville (Part IV)
I wanted more of that sensation, and made my demand known by punching at the air with clawless fists atop short, stubby arms.
Yet in his lifetime the horse was of course as much a problem for Stubbs's reputation as it was the cornerstone of his artistic practice.
We shall drop now into the field of stubble, midway between the copse and the family of rabbits that the vixen is preparing to destroy. THE ANCIENT AND SOLITARY REIGN
Photographs also included the burnt patch of stubble in the field that had been set alight by the firing. Times, Sunday Times
He was a lanky old man in overalls and he came across the lawn with a vigorous lope, grizzle-headed, a growth of stubbly beard on his chin. THE SERPENT'S MARK
He had several days of stubble on his chin and his teeth had been whittled down to yellowy stumps. The Crossing-Place
"You haven't shaved in a while, " she said, tracing her index fingertip over the stubble.

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