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Meanings of cigarette stub in English

The non-smoked stub of a cigarette.

Synonyms
Examples for "cigarette butt"
Examples for "cigarette butt"
1
Fred threw his cigarette butt on the floor and stepped on it.
Broken to the Plow / A Novel
2
Agamemnon stepped on his cigarette butt and ground it under his foot.
Sacrifice
3
The tallest flicked a cigarette butt in their direction and stared defiantly.
Consequences
4
The first man flicked his cigarette butt aside and followed his companion.
The Wolf’s Hour
5
She dropped her cigarette butt and ground it out with her toe.
Fat vampire: a never coming of age story
Usage of cigarette stub in English
1
The cigarette stub may have been thrown in lighted to start a fire.
The Film Mystery
2
A cigarette stub'll start a blaze forty men couldn't put out.
Big Timber: A Story of the Northwest
3
The operations director ground his cigarette stub under his heel.
The accident man
4
Johnny threw away his cigarette stub and straightened his shoulders.
The Thunder Bird
5
Across the table Talia sucked a drag from what was now a cigarette stub.
With friends like these
6
The man took the cigarette stub from behind his ear, lit it with a match.
Smoke and mirrors: short fictions and illusions
7
He got up, lifted a lid of the stove, and threw in the cigarette stub mechanically.
The Uphill Climb
8
He brushed a cigarette stub off the table.
The Blood Red Dawn
9
I paused, still holding the mangled cigarette stub.
All the way
10
A single match or a cigarette stub tossed from a passing automobile may start a costly fire.
The School Book of Forestry
11
Andy took a last, lingering pull at the cigarette stub, flung it into the backened forge, and picked up the spur.
The Happy Family
12
Then his eyes lighted upon a cigarette stub lying on the hearth of the little cookstove in one corner of the room.
Starr, of the Desert
13
Ted sent his cigarette stub careening off into the shrubbery and grinned back at his uncle, a grin half merry, half defiant.
Wild Wings: A Romance of Youth
14
Johnny ground the cigarette stub under his heel in the dirt, shrugged his shoulders with a fine imitation of perfect indifference, and yawned.
The Thunder Bird
15
The criminal facing execution thinks, not of his imminent fate or of his crime, but of the cigarette stub he left burning in his cell.
Bring the Jubilee
16
When the cigarette stub followed the match, he leaned back upon one elbow and began tracing a geometrical figure in the sand with a stick.
The Trail of the White Mule