Sentence examples for jabbing from inspiring English sources

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jabbing

noun

A motion or gesture that jabs; a jab.

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"The footage does not indicate that he was jabbing, stabbing or thrusting".

No. She'll be spending her Saturdays in the traditional manner, angrily jabbing pins into a high-trousered voodoo doll.

Related: The Tory economic plan is NOT working, at all - sadly, their PR war is Jabbing his fingers to make his point, Cameron told the rally: "Do you know what drives me so mad in this election?

Indeed, as he was taken to die by lethal injection (it took 50 minutes of jabbing to find a suitable vein), Rector saved the pecan pie from his last meal "for later".

And smaller robotic beasties are hopping, crawling and running into action, as three models built by Boston Dynamics, a spin-out from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MITT), illustrate.By jabbing the ground with a gas-powered piston, the Sand Flea can leap through a window, or onto a roof nine metres up.

MANY years ago, when I was starting out in journalism, I used to know a much older, amiable hack, who after a drink or two in the pub at night had a bad habit of jabbing my chest, reaching into his breast pocket, and then thrusting a sheaf of crumpled, yellowing press cuttings under my nose to show that he was the first to have written this, disclosed that, etc, etc.

Of course, the unenlightened could stumble sometimes, burning their tongues, or jabbing in a fork after only one minute of silent contemplation, which bent the prongs and sprayed the soup over the keyboard.

He invited China to share in this vision, while jabbing at it for perceived protectionism.

Two Western tourists who witnessed the event said as many as 100 people took part, shouting slogans and jabbing their fists in the air.

"DO YOU know how many times you have embarrassed me because you have refused to buy me a BlackBerry?" Keisha screams in a dusty car park, jabbing her boyfriend's chest.

Rolling up his sleeves and jabbing a finger in the air, he talks of fighting corruption.

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