Sentence examples for stub of a from inspiring English sources
They frisked him, he said, and found a stub of a marijuana cigarette in his pocket.
Like the eyes and ears, the animal's minute stub of a tail is not visible externally.
Inside the cabin he found the stub of a pencil and wrote a note on the edge of an old newspaper, and left it on the table.
BROADWAY between Union and Madison Squares is a little stub of a street, six blocks long, an oddball diagonal adrift in the matrix of the grid plan.
The bushy tails of lemurs can be longer than their bodies; the indri, however, has only a stub of a tail.
With his stub of a pencil, kept specially for the purpose, he crossed off the items she took from the bags they were in.
"Now what?" he says, struggling to light a cigarette with his stub of an arm.
He draws on his cigarette, the stub of an amputated little finger visible in his beefy hand.
When people take him up on the offer, he asks to see the stub of an unemployment check.
He was a wizened little man who chewed on the stub of an unlit cigar, forcing his right eye into a perpetual squint.
Mr. Adel, 43, turned his head to reveal a gnarled stub of an ear — the rest was forcibly amputated, without anesthesia, under Saddam Hussein, as punishment for his desertion from the army in 1987 during the Iran-Iraq war.
