Sentence examples for like a stab from inspiring English sources

They're not trying to be unkind, but the questions are like a stab to the heart.

This includes obvious things like a stab or gunshot wound, and unusual abrasions or cuts.

When I turned him round, I saw there was a gash in his back like a stab wound.

When she cries out that she loves him, it's like a stab to the heart, his and ours.

When someone close to you passes away, it's like a stab in the heart, an end of an era of which only you have a memory.

A bedtime story that plays like a stab at a modern myth, "Lady in the Water" follows Mr. Shyamalan's sensationally entertaining breakout ("The Sixth Sense"), a pair of misfires ("Unbreakable" and "Signs") and a raging bore ("The Village").

Emitting sounds is a privilege that should be forfeited immediately by anyone who does, like, a stabbing or a fraud or something.

"It's not a bad injury, but when the pain appears, it feels like a stabbing.

If you're involved in a gang or if you are connected to a murder like a stabbing, if everyone says "No comment" you can sweep that whole group of youngsters up and try them on joint enterprise.

I suppose, also, I'm in my 30's, and I'd quite like to take a stab at youth while I'm still not too far from it".

If X Factor can manage to pull all this off, those nine words might not feel like such a stab in the guts come Christmas.