The non-smoked stub of a cigarette.
1The cigarette stub may have been thrown in lighted to start a fire.
2A cigarette stub'll start a blaze forty men couldn't put out.
3The operations director ground his cigarette stub under his heel.
4Johnny threw away his cigarette stub and straightened his shoulders.
5Across the table Talia sucked a drag from what was now a cigarette stub.
6The man took the cigarette stub from behind his ear, lit it with a match.
7He got up, lifted a lid of the stove, and threw in the cigarette stub mechanically.
8He brushed a cigarette stub off the table.
9I paused, still holding the mangled cigarette stub.
10A single match or a cigarette stub tossed from a passing automobile may start a costly fire.
11Andy took a last, lingering pull at the cigarette stub, flung it into the backened forge, and picked up the spur.
12Then his eyes lighted upon a cigarette stub lying on the hearth of the little cookstove in one corner of the room.
13Ted sent his cigarette stub careening off into the shrubbery and grinned back at his uncle, a grin half merry, half defiant.
14Johnny ground the cigarette stub under his heel in the dirt, shrugged his shoulders with a fine imitation of perfect indifference, and yawned.
15The criminal facing execution thinks, not of his imminent fate or of his crime, but of the cigarette stub he left burning in his cell.
16When the cigarette stub followed the match, he leaned back upon one elbow and began tracing a geometrical figure in the sand with a stick.