stubble

IPA: stˈʌbʌɫ

noun

  • (countable and uncountable) Short, coarse hair, especially on a man’s face.
  • (countable and uncountable) The short stalks left in a field after crops have been harvested.

verb

  • (agriculture) To produce a crop in a field of stubble that remains after a preceding crop is removed, either by sowing a second crop or by allowing shoots to sprout from the roots of the stubble.
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Examples of "stubble" in Sentences

  • Stubble along the hairline is visible.
  • I was ecstatic when I stubbled upon it.
  • The moustache was much thicker than the stubble.
  • It's a characteristic species of stubble fields.
  • During the 1980s stubble on men became fashionable.
  • I definitely think stubble is the way to go for him.
  • Cary Grant with two week’s worth of stubble is a drunken bum.
  • Originally, it was a vast cornfield, full of reeds and stubble.
  • The way you’d be covered in stubble and unwashed to the point where you can smell your own skin.
  • If I have on the right (or, I guess, wrong) sort of underwear, the stubble is like Velcro and I have to rip my undies off every time I go to the bathroom.
  • When the stubble is driven by the wind it will rest, at last, under some hedge, in some ditch or other; but he prays that they might not only be driven away as stubble, but burnt up as stubble.
  • [Page 49] poor souls were driven forth to gather in stubble for mixing with their clay; and yet how they were required to give in as large a tale of bricks at the end of each day's work as if the straw had been duly provided.
  • OR amount of stubble is proportionate to job satisfaction. who wants to work somewhere that makes shave. you might as well say employablity is proportionate to cost of your tie/suit instead of saying casual attire/comfortablity of dress is proportionate to job satisfaction
  • Price: 3,500,000 Euro ckolderup oh no, semantic polysemy! we've never had to deal with that before! csessums patched with rat stubble from a barber's dust pan cwaxler civil case Tiffany brought against eBay drothschild iT WAS A QUEER, SULTRY SUMMER, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York jessamyn Personally, I'm after the uncontrolled growth of pubic hair.

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