Sentence examples for in a stab from inspiring English sources

In a stab at levity, Electric 102.7 was playing a country song about what it called the "Aquapocalypse".

"Do they look sexy?" Boggs, in a stab at conversation, asked Bloomfield what her fantasy kitchen toy was.

And on Slate, Troy Patterson said "Tim" was not so much animated as "complacently sketched in a stab at slacker minimalism".

But in late February — the same day sound pads were installed around the compressor in the street in a stab at noise abatement — she was gripped by a new sense of urgency.

Mr. Bocelli fares far better than he did in a stab at legitimacy last year, when he made his North American opera debut in a production of Massenet's "Werther" at the Michigan Opera Theater in Detroit.

In a stab at viral marketing, the orchestra posted its version of underground videos to YouTube: three skits with Mr. Gilbert eating ice cream, playing Guitar Hero and walking through Lincoln Center with a voice-distorted figure of Death (wearing an inexpensive party-store costume).

Two Israeli men were killed and one woman seriously wounded in a stabbing attack in Jerusalem's Old City on Saturday night.

While Gormley senior is a famous former resident, the south London suburb is more likely to be associated, at best, with fictitious wheeler-dealers Rodney and Del Boy, and worst, Harriet Harman in a stab-proof vest.

I was involved in a stabbing (not fatal) on the wing.

23-year-old Jeremy Powell, a suspect in a stabbing death, was being interviewed around 5 40 p.m. when gunshots rang out.

[DNA Info] The police have identified the suspect in a stabbing outside one of Chelsea's trendy nightclubs.