How to Use take/make a stab at in a Sentence

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• Every once in a while, take a stab at cleaning the inside of your air fryer.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2022
• Patrick Schwarzenegger is hoping to take a stab at a choice role that happens to bear his first name.
  — Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 2 May 2025
• Bet on how Ward's first drive will end or even take a stab at what will happen on the first play from scrimmage.
  — Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Aug. 2025
• In other words, there’s plenty of new material for Scary Movie to take a stab at.
  — Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Apr. 2024
• Kimmel gets to spend time with his family, his crew still gets paid, and a diverse crop of celebs gets to take a stab at hosting a late-night talk show.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 19 June 2025
• If the answer leans more towards the latter, take a stab at it yourself before passing the question off to a chatbot.
  — Celia Ford, Vox, 10 Mar. 2025
• The creative team and stars take a stab at answering some of the lingering questions that remain after the credits roll.
  — EW.com, 29 Aug. 2025
• About a decade ago, their educations complete, the sisters decided to take a stab at a career in music.
  — David Bauder, Star Tribune, 2 Mar. 2021
• Tijuana isn’t the first government to take a stab at banning songs that glorify violence and drugs.
  — Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Dec. 2023
• Losers can be elected as guessers who take a stab at identifying a roommate's famous family member.
  — Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 11 July 2022
• Her past doesn’t excuse her violent and negligent behavior, but does take a stab at explaining it.
  — Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, 24 Nov. 2020
• Pitt convinced the filmmaker to let Fincher take a stab at directing it, setting it up earlier this spring.
  — Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 30 May 2025
• Many young people who can take a stab at the current housing market have depended on older generations for help with a down payment.
  — Bychloe Berger, Fortune, 2 May 2024
• Bottoms’ stars are all in their mid-to-late 20s, and the film doesn’t even take a stab at trying to age them down visually, but that kind of enhances the humor.
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 13 Mar. 2023
• Asher can also take a stab at doing good without the cameras present, by giving Abshir the house his family has been squatting in.
  — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2024
• In an exclusive clip from this week's episode, below, the panelists take a stab at guessing the true celebrity identity behind the Griffin mask.
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 11 Mar. 2025
• This paper attempts to take a stab at peeling pack the veil and gaining a more fundamental understanding of the phenomenon.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 27 July 2010
• The extreme conservatives who did take a stab at condemning Dank Brandon could barely muster a reason to be angry.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2022
• To keep your feet on solid ground, here are some analog experiments—custom-designed for your zodiac sign—to take a stab at during this trying time period.
  — The Astrotwins, ELLE, 1 Apr. 2023
• One even suggested popular DJ, John Summit, take a stab at creating the song.
  — Paloma Chavez, Miami Herald, 6 May 2024
• Or take a stab at pole-and-line fishing, which has a history dating back thousands of years, on a local fishing boat beside Maldivian fishermen.
  — Alexandra Kirkman, Robb Report, 29 May 2025
• Now, English director Edgar Wright has decided to take a stab at the property but with a story that stays closer to the source material.
  — Michileen Martin, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 July 2025
• Devenanzio pairs up with longtime friend and fellow Challenge vet Nany González to take a stab at winning season 38's $1 million grand prize.
  — Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 12 Oct. 2022
• However, multiple directors and writers came and went throughout the process, with Miller even teaming with comic book scribe Grant Morrison to take a stab at a script.
  — Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Feb. 2023
• Parker Posey wants to take a stab at another Scream movie despite her character's grisly — and seemingly pretty definitive — death in Scream 3.
  — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 18 Apr. 2023
• Knowing that Bernstein was dating Nora Ephron, whose parents were screenwriters, Woodward suggested that the couple take a stab at writing a screenplay themselves.
  — Washington Post, 9 June 2022
• Perseverance will make a stab at that, but human rock hounds, capable of traveling far over difficult terrain, climbing, digging, doing delicate work and intuitively following up clues, can do that job vastly better.
  — Robert Zubrin, Scientific American, 25 Mar. 2021
• The gentle-hearted Miriam’s (a luminous Bisserat Tseggai) heart-rending story about breaking away from a louse of a husband, having to leave her little girl behind to make a stab at a new life, cuts to the bone.
  — Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 15 Nov. 2024
• Since the British anthology series premiered in 2011, some of the biggest names in the entertainment industry have starred in standalone episodes that take a stab at predicting the outrageous and horrifying future of digital innovations.
  — Emily Blackwood, People.com, 17 Apr. 2025