How to Use stub in a Sentence

stub

1 of 2 noun

• Hold onto your ticket stub in case you leave the theater and want to come back in again.
• The idea is to leave slight stubs.
  — Michele Laufik, Martha Stewart, 19 Feb. 2026
• Tear off the stub at the top of the ballot.
  — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 1 June 2026
• In other words, don’t leave stubs.
  — Neil Sperry, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Jan. 2026
• Don’t leave short branch stubs behind.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Dec. 2025
• Cut just above a bud so that a flush of growth will screen the stubs.
  — Katherine Owen, Southern Living, 20 Apr. 2026
• Always leave a bit of the stub rather than cut right to the bark.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Mar. 2022
• Try to avoid cutting them off leaving stubs.
  — Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2026
• Do not leave more than a ¼-inch of a stub, and seal the open wound with pruning paint.
  — Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com, 18 Dec. 2020
• Where her arm used to be, the octopus has a stub of bright-white flesh.
  — Anna Blaustein, Scientific American, 23 Apr. 2021
• After it had been passed around and smoked to a stub, the group stepped inside.
  — New York Times, 20 July 2022
• Move along, boomers, and take your old-school paper ticket stubs with you.
  — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 26 Mar. 2023
• Do not remove the stub from your ballot or it will not be counted.
  — Peter Krouse, cleveland, 6 Oct. 2020
• There was a ticket stub sticking out of his left breast pocket.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2022
• They will also be required to submit their last two full-time pay stubs.
  — Alicia Lee, CNN, 12 Apr. 2020
• All that remained was an inch-long stub of metal sticking out of the ground.
  — New York Times, 3 Aug. 2021
• There, they were attached to either side of a stub known as the center wing box.
  — Niraj Chokshi Lindsey Wasson, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2023
• The wood in a branch stub won't heal as effectively as the wood right next to a main stem.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Dec. 2025
• Cut back to where the flower stem meets the main stem of the plant so unsightly stubs aren’t left.
  — Betty Cahill, The Denver Post, 27 June 2019
• The payment stub at the bottom of the bill should be included.
  — Brandi Addison, Dallas News, 24 Nov. 2020
• If the income is irregular, users may be asked for pay stubs.
  — NBC News, 26 July 2019
• Our pay stubs and time sheets refer to vacation time as something earned.
  — John Wisely, Detroit Free Press, 21 June 2019
• Three fingers were gone, stubs now, his right hand a pincer of thumb and forefinger.
  — Tim Requarth, Longreads, 22 Oct. 2019
• Once the ballot is filled out, the voter detaches the stub at the top and keeps it for their records.
  — Morgan Cook, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Oct. 2020
• And the toe caps nicely padded the front of my feet just as securely against any stubs on small rocks or boulders.
  — Karthika Gupta, Travel + Leisure, 21 Oct. 2023
• Include the remittance stub or write the account number on the check.
  — cleveland, 6 May 2022
• The move to digital stubs has cut down on old-school forgery, but other avenues for concern have emerged.
  — Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 24 Sep. 2025
• When Jack was born, his thumb and pinkie were normal, but the other three fingers were reduced to stubs.
  — Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 20 July 2026
• Pieces of junk — jars, paper scraps, ticket stubs, a nail — are labeled and neatly displayed on the walls.
  — Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post, 7 June 2023
• In some instances, the feature can reveal full stories that show only a stub as part of a paywall.
  — Dwight Silverman, Forbes, 17 May 2021

stub

2 of 2 verb

• Our knees stubbed into the concrete, chipping away at our morale.
  — Mike Kotsopoulos, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Apr. 2018
• This was not the Raiders stubbing their toe on a couple of fumbles.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Oct. 2017
• Kizzi, who spent all day in pain after stubbing her toe on a trash can, tosses and turns all night.
  — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 20 Jan. 2026
• Joe couldn't stub his toe without ten people wanting to run at him waving bales of gauze.
  — CBS News, 31 May 2026
• Lewis has had a gun pointed at him three times and a cigarette stubbed out on his forehead once.
  — Todd C. Frankel, chicagotribune.com, 16 May 2018
• So if seniors have stubbed out their smokes, what are the effects of being overweight or obese?
  — Erin Arvedlund, Philly.com, 13 Dec. 2017
• The mendicant stubbed out his smoke and lit another one.
  — Literary Hub, 21 Nov. 2025
• Cigarettes were stubbed into the holes where a tiny pig once lived near a window molding.
  — Domenica Bongiovanni, Indianapolis Star, 10 Mar. 2020
• In 1828, a man named Benjamin Parks stubbed his toe on a stone.
  — John Archibald, Southern Living, 11 June 2026
• In 1828, a man named Benjamin Parks stubbed his toe on a stone.
  — John Archibald, Southern Living, 25 May 2025
• Miami is having way too much fun to stub its toe on the league’s most miserable misfits.
  — Mark Craig, Star Tribune, 15 Oct. 2020
• Meanwhile, a woman stubs out her cigarette in her own ashtray, a mini glass jam jar.
  — Tim Spiers, New York Times, 20 June 2025
• No doubt last week’s announcement has stubbed out any future efforts to continue.
  — Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
• How many young Americans have stubbed their pronouncing toes upon it.
  — Rosa Inocencio Smith, The Atlantic, 5 June 2017
• Conservators later found burn marks on the walls where people had stubbed out their cigarettes.
  — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2026
• Still, Purdue needs to get itself off the mat and get right again after stubbing its toe earlier this month.
  — Nick Baumgardner, Detroit Free Press, 28 Feb. 2018
• On Alabama’s opening possession of the game, Tua stubbed his toe on the grass and dropped the ball.
  — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 10 Nov. 2019
• In the second half, Freese stepped off his line to control a ball, hesitated, stubbed his foot against the ground, and lost the ball.
  — Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 7 July 2026
• Oz said the bigger issue was pregnant women taking acetaminophen for minor issues like a headache or stubbed toe.
  — Colin Meyn, The Hill, 24 Sep. 2025
• Video shows the marine serpent swimming by the shore in the clear shallow waters while stubbed beachgoers surround it.
  — Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2025
• From Luke's crash into the stairs to Greg's falling through the floor to me stubbing my little toe on the glider.
  — Julia Emmanuele, PEOPLE, 16 Dec. 2025
• From Luke's crash into the stairs to Greg's falling through the floor to me stubbing my little toe on the glider.
  — Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com, 18 Dec. 2021
• From Luke's crash into the stairs to Greg's falling through the floor to me stubbing my little toe on the glider.
  — Julia Emmanuele, Peoplemag, 24 May 2023
• Its short overhangs, boxy but round-cornered shape, and stubbed hood all remind one of the Bus of the 1970s.
  — New Atlas, 7 Dec. 2025
• Every now and then, Don would stub his toe, and occasionally something would fall on him, but nothing very heavy.
  — Jack Handey, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2020
• Already stubbed for a bathroom and bar, this currently unfinished space can be tailored to a buyer’s delight.
  — kansascity, 12 May 2017
• Most people break a toe by stubbing it or dropping something on it, according to the Mayo Clinic.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 29 Feb. 2020
• The city that never sleeps has always had a strong illicit cannabis market and adult-use legalization is unlikely to stub it out anytime soon.
  — Will Yakowicz, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2021
• But what’s more arrogant and absurd than referring to a 5-24 record in the last 29 games as stubbing one’s toe?
  — Pat Leonard, Hartford Courant, 5 Jan. 2026
• At one point a barefoot Christian Hubicki stubbed his open toe on some coral, started bleeding, and medical had to come in to treat it.
  — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Mar. 2026