How do you use Stubble in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like chaff or husk, plus the exact meaning.
Stubble meaning
- Short, coarse hair, especially on a man’s face.
- The short stalks left in a field after crops have been harvested.
Using Stubble
- The main meaning on this page is: Short, coarse hair, especially on a man’s face. | The short stalks left in a field after crops have been harvested.
- Useful related words include: chaff, husk, shuck, stalk.
- In the example corpus, stubble often appears in combinations such as: stubble burning, of stubble, the stubble.
Context around Stubble
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 8 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Stubble
- In this selection, "stubble" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 22.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, light, check, clearing, burning, clearing and burn stand out and add context to how "stubble" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 55 thought stubble often sported and a beard stubble. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "stubble" sits close to words such as abelian, acer and agrippina, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with stubble
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The government should tell what should a farmer do about stubble. (11 words)
Like stubble on Prince William and jeans on Princess Catherine, it was charming. (13 words)
Instead, I pop over a fence into a stubble field running alongside the river. (14 words)
Smoke from stubble burning accounted for 24.5% of the PM2.5 pollution in Delhi on Saturday, dropping from 35% on Friday, according to a numerical model-based system developed by the Pune-based Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology. (39 words)
But before you run off to the barber shop clutching a photograph of Chuck Noland, it’s probably worth mentioning that the overwhelming preference was for well-maintained stubble as opposed to untamed, knee-length flavour savers. (37 words)
A survey of 2,000 adults attracted to men found that 55% thought stubble, often sported by actor Chris Hemsworth, was the sexiest facial hair look, far outstripping the short beard (24%) and hipster beard (eight%). (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
According to a report of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, 21,157 incidents of stubble burning were reported from January to June this year.
Fitzgibbon enters the dock alongside one security guard, wearing a navy blue Nike tracksuit and sporting short dark hair and light stubble.
Gurdaspur Deputy Commissioner (DC) Himanshu Aggarwal said he along with the Gurdaspur SSP visited fields to check stubble burning.
Punjab faces a crucial period in managing or clearing stubble from approximately 5 lakh hectares where the crop has been recently harvested.
Since states are already fund starved, they are not able to tackle the problem of stubble burning on their own.
Smoke from stubble burning accounted for 24.5% of the PM2.5 pollution in Delhi on Saturday, dropping from 35% on Friday, according to a numerical model-based system developed by the Pune-based Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology.
Source apportionment studies have shown that stubble burning contributes to nearly 40 per cent of Delhi’s air pollution during the peak harvest season.
Super seeders and smart seeders too were utilized significantly, requiring no stubble clearing after harvest.
The blaze, which started from a stubble burn, destroyed 309 hectares of mainly grassland on private property.
The Englishman simply rubbed his stubble innocently every time Russell looked at him, with the Scotland star completely unaware.
The farmers then took the officials to a nearby farm and forced Sagar to set on fire a heap of paddy stubble.
A survey of 2,000 adults attracted to men found that 55% thought stubble, often sported by actor Chris Hemsworth, was the sexiest facial hair look, far outstripping the short beard (24%) and hipster beard (eight%).
But before you run off to the barber shop clutching a photograph of Chuck Noland, it’s probably worth mentioning that the overwhelming preference was for well-maintained stubble as opposed to untamed, knee-length flavour savers.
Instead, I pop over a fence into a stubble field running alongside the river.
Like stubble on Prince William and jeans on Princess Catherine, it was charming.
Officers say Zak is described as approximately 6ft 2in tall, of stocky build, with brown hair and a beard/stubble.
Subsidizing machinery for residue management— like super-seeders that can plant crops directly into the stubble— could offer a long-term solution while alleviating the burden on farmers.
The government should tell what should a farmer do about stubble.
Almost all the farmers’ representatives demanded to withdraw the farm laws as well as the proposed penalty on stubble burning.
A significant increase in stubble fire count was observed around Haryana, Punjab, and neighbouring regions on Thursday which stood at 1,213.
Common combinations with stubble
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- stubble burning 41×
- of stubble 8×
- the stubble 6×
- burning stubble 4×
- to stubble 4×
- from stubble 3×
- crop stubble 3×
- stubble as 3×
- and stubble 3×
- that stubble 2×