Explore Stabbing through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like wounding or harmful. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Stabbing in a sentence
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Stabbing meaning
Sharp, intense.
Using Stabbing
- The main meaning on this page is: Sharp, intense.
- Useful related words include: wounding, harmful, cutting, keen.
- In the example corpus, stabbing often appears in combinations such as: the stabbing, stabbing in, of stabbing.
Context around Stabbing
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 13 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Stabbing
- In this selection, "stabbing" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, triple, daylight, admit, deaths, death and occurred stand out and add context to how "stabbing" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a daylight stabbing in a and a double stabbing. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "stabbing" sits close to words such as inaugural, kilometres and pork, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with stabbing
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A man later was arrested in connection with the stabbing. (10 words)
A man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder following a double stabbing. (14 words)
A man was arrested on assault and weapon charges following a stabbing in Enfield on Tuesday. (16 words)
A grad student seeking a criminal justice degree from Washington State University has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students more than six weeks ago, officials said on Friday. (40 words)
According to early reports, a young Ukrainian male sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl before stabbing her, dousing her in a liquid—likely gasoline—and throwing her off a cliff after wrapping her up in a bag. (38 words)
Alberta’s highest court is being asked to overturn a review board decision on the stabbing deaths of five young people at a Calgary house party that confined a man to a supervised Edmonton group home. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
The suspect in the stabbing death of a Catholic priest in had no connection to the priest or the small town where the stabbing occurred last week, prosecutors said during a court hearing Thursday.
According to the daily the suspect is charged with stabbing his father, his sibling and then attempting to commit suicide by stabbing himself after feeling guilty of what he had done.
The triple stabbing came just an hour after a 26-year-old man was critically injured following a stabbing in Forest Gate, Newham, just three miles away.
Stabbing was a very efficient technique, as stabbing wounds, especially in the abdominal area, were almost always deadly.
A 14-year-old boy has been arrested and charged with attempted murder after a 17-year-old was hospitalized following a daylight stabbing in a downtown laneway earlier this month.
A 14-year-old female junior high school student in central Japan was arrested early Wednesday morning on suspicion of attempted murder for stabbing her mother, who later passed away, with a kitchen knife.
A 16-year-old boy has died after a stabbing at a Toronto subway station, police say.
A 30-year-old Belper man has appeared in court to admit stabbing a Costa Coffee worker in the head in the town.
A 30-year-old man has been found guilty of murdering a father of one by stabbing him in the head with a screwdriver in a churchyard.
About 100 C-train riders had to get off the train as it sat inside a downtown tunnel Tuesday night following a stabbing incident on board one of the cars.
About 3:40 p.m. Thursday, officers responded to a report of a stabbing on the 2400 block of Slauson Avenue in Huntington Park.
According to early reports, a young Ukrainian male sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl before stabbing her, dousing her in a liquid—likely gasoline—and throwing her off a cliff after wrapping her up in a bag.
A fundraiser established to help the family of a teenage motocross star who was killed in a tragic stabbing has soared past its target in just hours.
A grad student seeking a criminal justice degree from Washington State University has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students more than six weeks ago, officials said on Friday.
Alberta’s highest court is being asked to overturn a review board decision on the stabbing deaths of five young people at a Calgary house party that confined a man to a supervised Edmonton group home.
Although aged 18, he pretended to be 14 and was placed in foster care before stabbing a blameless young man to death in Bournemouth.
Although she is the smallest member of the Demon Slayer Corps, Shinobu possesses a powerful stabbing attack that is to pierce a stone boulder.
A man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder following a double stabbing.
A man later was arrested in connection with the stabbing.
A man was arrested on assault and weapon charges following a stabbing in Enfield on Tuesday.
Common combinations with stabbing
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the stabbing 44×
- stabbing in 21×
- of stabbing 21×
- stabbing at 13×
- fatal stabbing 13×
- stabbing her 9×
- stabbing of 9×
- stabbing death 7×
- by stabbing 7×
- for stabbing 7×