Collocations for "stub"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "stub" in context.
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stub
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- a [ticket, check, voucher] stub
- [can, may] I see your (ticket) stub?
- please hold on to your stub
- check your (ticket) stub for the winning number
- check your seat number on your (ticket) stub
- will need your (ticket) stub for reentry
- all that was left of the pencil was a stub
- wrote with a stub of [white] chalk
- put her [cigarette, cigar] stub out (on)
- an ashtray full of stubs
- emptied the stubs into the trash
- stubs of burned candles
- got [caught, trapped] on a branch stub
- stub your [toe, finger, thumb]
- stub your [toe] on a [table leg, stair, rock]
- stub out a [cigarette, cigar]
- stub a [cigarette] out (on)
- stub the [land, lawn, garden]
- the [land] was stubbed
- stub up a [hedge, tree, plant]
- a stub [shaft, wall]
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