Sentence examples for stub it from inspiring English sources

As if this were not enough to alienate voters, the Senate spent four weeks on an ill-conceived but generally popular tobacco bill until, on June 17th, its Republican opponents managed to stub it out.After this defeat, neither chamber of Congress seems likely to pass a tobacco bill before the November elections.

And how do you stub it out safely?

Worse, this fictitious country has adopted extremely punitive versions of the West's P.C. prohibitions against smoking ("No Ifs, No Butts, Stub It Out!").

Possibly they saw that one end of it was soaking wet and noticed all the ash on my shorts from trying to stub it out.

One hand is holding a cigarette tentatively — he'll smoke it halfway down and then stub it out — and he turns in his chair to put his Martini back on the Swedish side table to his right.

If you're very daring, ask for a nonsmoking room, smoke a cigarette as soon as you get into your room, stub it out on the floor and empty the minibar into your suitcase.

Anthropologists agree, Pamuk said through the audio tour, that in Istanbul, where so many people smoke, "the linked actions of hiding and lighting a cigarette, flicking the ash off its end and stubbing it out all form a particular sign language of vast significance".

Then, after taking one puff, he stubs it out.

I smoked perhaps a quarter of the joint, stubbed it out and tossed the rest.

Helmut Schmidt takes a last, long drag on his cigarette and stubs it out.

As I stubbed it out, I announced that I was a non-smoker.