Which preposition to use with jabbing
You say 'pass,' and when I try to pass, you jab at my innards with that mustick in a rather oncomfortable manner.
The sergeant hears everything, and his reply to backslack is a straight-arm jab in the jaw.
"We ain't the only ones that need a jab of dope, Dominie," said Mr. Hines, hard and pink and hoarsely confidential as when I first saw him.
"That settles it!" said the old lady, giving her umbrella a jab into the ground.
He was trying to drive in a third when Pennington blocked, following this with a left-arm jab on Darrin's left jaw that sent the lighter man to the floor.
Every building facing on the square was either wholly or partially demolished, the steel splinters of the projectile tearing their way through the thick brick-walls as easily as a lead-pencil is jabbed through a sheet of paper.
Agony jerked up as though she had been jabbed with a red hot needle.
Montgomery ducked, but got a jab from the left upon the mark.
His spur was gone, and for hours he had kept his half-dead, lolling-tongued pony on the way, by frequent jabbing from a broken lead-pencil....