RUB in a Sentence

Learn RUB from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

237 example sentences for RUB, such as:

1. They rub an old tin lamp or an iron ring.
2. We manage to rub along together fairly well.
3. He rubbed his forehead with the back of his hand.
4. Trainers rub down an athlete after hard exercise.
5. I must rub up my memory and recall where I met him.

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 Meanings and Examples of RUB
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
rub
 v.  move over the surface with pressure and friction; spread a substance thinly over
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  He longed to stoop his cheek and rub it against her scarf.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
2  Hardly waiting to rub the dirt off on her skirt, she bit off half and swallowed it hastily.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
3  Her hands were chilled and she paused to rub them together and to scuff her feet deeper into the strip of old quilting wrapped about them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
4  A stable boy who didn't rub down his horse after a day's hunt.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
5  I don't think he knew what it was all about but he didn't like it and Suellen always did rub him the wrong way.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
6  I don't want to rub it in, but you can see for yourself now, this is all a result of your being so discontented and not appreciating the dear good people here.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
7  Long before daylight, I was called to go and rub, curry, and feed, the horses.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
8  The surgeon had been sitting with his face turned towards the fire: giving the palms of his hands a warm and a rub alternately.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
9  These, however, had no worse effect than causing her to rub her nose very hard, and then fall asleep again.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
10  'That's two doubles and the rub,' said Mr. Chitling, with a very long face, as he drew half-a-crown from his waistcoat-pocket.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
11  Wine-stains, fruit-stains, beer-stains, water-stains, paint-stains, pitch-stains, any stains, all come out at one rub with the infallible and invaluable composition.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
12  You must rub the place with the fat of other adders, and the only way to get that is by frying them.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 7 The Tragic Meeting of Two Old Friends
13  Sometimes in the course of gay parties women used to rub champagne into his hair; for himself he formed the habit of letting liquor alone.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
14  As to that," said he, "I must rub through the world as well as I can.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 44
15  He bent down so low to frown at his boots, that he was able to rub the calves of his legs in the pause he made.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXVI
Example Sentence: (27 in 2 pages)
1  If you draw or write in pencil you can always rub out your mistakes with an eraser.
2  Jack was not so much interested in making money, so long as he could manage to rub along.
3  Trainers rub down an athlete after hard exercise.
4  When you rub your hands together the friction produces heat.
5  We manage to rub along together fairly well.
6  OK, I made a mistake, - you don't have to rub it in.
7  As a reporter he gets to rub shoulders with all the big names in politics.
8  I must rub up my memory and recall where I met him.
9  They rub an old tin lamp or an iron ring.
10  Why, they rub an old tin lamp or an iron ring, and then the genies come tearing in, with the thunder and lightning a-ripping around and the smoke a-rolling, and everything they're told to do they up and do it.
11  The rub is that Google owns several patents related to MapReduce and other data center technologies that have spawned widely used open source projects
12  He rubbed his forehead with the back of his hand.
13  She rubbed out those dirty marks on her white skirt.
14  I rubbed a clear patch on the window with my fingers.
15  He rubbed his hands together, cracking his knuckles as he tried to control his anger.