Meanings of sharp jab in English

Anyone who protested was given a sharp jab with a shock rod.

Her dreamy thoughts were interrupted by a sharp jab to her neck.

It was like receiving a quick, sharp jab to her kidneys.

Ryan stubbed out his cigarette with one sharp jab.

Aylaen gave him a sharp jab in the ribs with her elbow and he fell silent.

He didn't mind the sharp jab when he sat up to pull it over his head.

He jerked as soon as the handcuffs clicked closed and Pete's wrist bruised with a sharp jab.

No brush of fingertips will prod me awake, and so I yearn for the knife's sharp jab.

A sharp jab in his shoulder woke him and suddenly a face he did not recognise appeared.

Hillary Rodham Clinton took another sharp jab at the Bush administration as she outlined her science policy Thursday.

Kirov stood up to intercept him, but he felt a sharp jab in the middle of his back.

She yanked her arm free of Alice-Marie's hand and gave the girl's hip a sharp jab with her elbow.

Thrusting her foot into an old slipper, she felt a sharp jab upon the point of her index digit.

A sharp jab woke Iko.

I couldn't breathe properly. What she describes sounds like a restraint technique known as nose distraction, which involves a sharp jab under the nose.

The hearing was mostly cordial, but included a few sharp jabs.