Sentence examples for got a stab from inspiring English sources

"We got a stab in the back".

"We got a stab in the back," as Patrick Thomas, one of Hermès's co-chief executives, later said.

And as one of our most talented Shakespearean actors he's the man for the part (even if his career includes roles Aldridge never got a stab at – Rosalind in Cheek by Jowl's celebrated all-male As You Like It and non-Shakespearean triumphs such as confidence trickster Mickey Bricks in the BBC's Hustle).

Every so often (and it is not very often at all), you get a stab of recognition reading a new writer.

It is not necessarily poor form that has prevented McIlorum from getting a stab at international duty in the past two years, however.

Salah, Firmino, Salah, Keita... and there's a bit of hungry hippos situation on the edge of the box which ends with Keita just getting a stab at goal.

· Friday, 9pm, C4 TV Johnny Vegas: 18 Stone Of Idiot Celebrity lock-ins, Ray Winstone guesting and Neil Hamilton dancing for fish in a box... Johnny Vegas gets a stab at making that elusive Friday night pub-style slot work.

Categories in this eight-legged expo range from "cuddly" Brachypelmas to tree-creeping Asian Arboreals, and even scorpions get a stab at netting the prestigious Best in Show prize.

Adrian Lester has broken the mould in roles that Aldridge did not get a stab at, so he proves to be perfect casting, conveying the thespian's authority and disillusion in the outer episodes, and the passion of the 26-year-old we see in the flashback to London, 1833.

So, I was trying to get a stab at him, and then I ended up getting eliminated on it.

Learning she had got a job, he stabbed a tablecloth angrily with his fork.