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How to use stud in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Stud means a male animal, especially a stud horse (stallion), kept for breeding. Example: “She's wearing studs in her ears.”

Examples of stud by meaning

nounA group of broodmares or other animals kept for breeding.

  • When I was a kid-about ten -my friend's grandfather, John Stone, had a stud of cocks.2000, Robert H. Rimmer, The Trade Off--My Husband/Your Wife, page 136

nounA group of locomotives.

  • In freight working a considerable stud of ex-N.E.R. 3-cylinder 4-6-0s of Class "B16" is used, some of which include the Thompson modifications to the front end.1949 November and December, O. S. Nock, “Twenty-Four Hours at York—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 358
  • At that time, therefore, L.M.S. motive power for the increased loads of the Birmingham trains was less than adequate, whereas the G.W.R. route had an ample stud of Churchward and Collett 4-6-0s, and timekeeping was good.1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 98
  • It cannot be disputed that he put on the road, in this age of intense workings, a stud of locomotives the swiftness and reliability of which are second to none.2013, O. S. Nock, The Locomotives of Sir Nigel Gresley, Read Books Limited

nounA sexually attractive, promiscuous male.

  • I ain't a for-real cowboy, but I am one hell of a stud!1969, Waldo Salt, Midnight Cowboy, spoken by Joe Buck (Jon Voight)
  • Those soap-opera studs and studettes sliding between satin sheets in the afternoon?1999 December 16, Mark Wolf, “The V-chip has arrived with little fanfare”, in The Coshocton Tribune

nounA sexually dominant lesbian, chiefly African-American.

  • Down and lonely stud, 23 years old, wants comfort from sweet-hearted fem.1983 August 13, Lisa Smith, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 5, page 22

nounA small object that protrudes from something; an ornamental knob.

  • a collar with studs

nounA style of earring where the decorative element is mounted on a straight post.

  • She's wearing studs in her ears.

verbTo set (something) over a surface at intervals.

  • Stud the cake all over with chocolate chips, pointed ends in.2010, Rose Levy Beranbaum, Rose's Heavenly Cakes
  • Stud the onion with cloves and add to the pan.2016, Mary Price, Vincent Price, Mary and Vincent Price's Come Into the Kitchen Cook Book, page 70

More sentences with stud

  • Many US states have outlawed studs due to the damage they cause to paved roads.From the entry studs
  • His cowboy belt was studded with points.From the entry point
  • He wore his studs to play soccer.From the entry studs
  • Use of studded tires is regulated in most countries.From the entry studded
  • The scrap yard had bins marked for irony aluminum, such as aluminum engine blocks not wholly cleaned of bolts, studs, brackets, and so on.From the entry irony
  • This sweet bean gelée, called yōkan, is studded with candied chestnuts colored yellow by gardenia petals.2021 March 23, Hannah Kirshner, “Kuri Yōkan”, in Water, Wood, and Wild Things: Learning Craft and Cultivation in a Japanese Mountain Town…. From the entry gelée
  • More people die every time Steve Aoki stage-dives in a particularly studded belt.2020 October 23, Alex Hanton, “A Brief History Of South Korea's Weirdest Urban Legend: Killer Fans”, in Cracked.com, archived from the…. From the entry yard-garita
  • Our group had the attention of every stud, AG (aggressive girl), femme, and butch in the place.2019, Ben Burgess Jr., Wounded. From the entry ag
  • I ordered one, and it arrived oozing with hummus and studded with bright green falafel.2017, Juli Berwald, “In Medusa’s Blood”, in Spineless: The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry pita
  • Studs sit on the soleplate, generally every 16 inches on center.2017, David Toht, 40 Projects for Building Your Backyard Homestead. From the entry soleplate
  • The Bahamian resort had been hopping with hot to trot studs and studettes.2011, Judith Arnold, Father Found. From the entry studette
  • Huth flies into a sliding tackle, studs up, but gets the ball off Elmander.2011 April 17, Rob Bagchi, “Bolton Wanderers v Stoke City - as it happened!”, in The Guardian. From the entry studs up
  • Pink satin prom pumps lie under heavy studded black clompers; yellow suede midi-boots trample wafer-thin Blahnik mules.2009 June 4, Cintra Wilson, “Choose a Shoe, Any Shoe, and Hold On”, in New York Times. From the entry clomper
  • The stud colt had taken to halter and bit easily enough, but he was a coldback.2009, David Karcher, Winter Kill, page 17. From the entry cold-back
  • Those soap - opera studs and studettes sliding between satin sheets in the afternoon?1999 December 16, Mark Wolf, “The v-chip has arrived with little fanfare”, in The Coshocton Tribune. From the entry studette
  • It’s a thick, omelety affair studded with pork, vegetables and what looks like more seafood extender.1999 November 30, Terry Durack, “Got that sunken feeling?”, in Good Living (The Sydney Morning Herald), Sydney, N.S.W., page 6, column 3. From the entry omelety
  • He stood up and gloomily opened a little silver-gilt box, its lid studded with aventurines.1998, Joris-Karl Huysmans, chapter 9, in Margaret Mauldon, transl., edited by Nicholas White, Against Nature (A rebours) (Oxford World’s…. From the entry aventurine
  • He pulls off his belt, cursing as the studs catch in the tabs of his jeans.1994 [1993], Irvine Welsh, “Station to Station”, in Trainspotting, London: Minerva, →ISBN, page 333. From the entry tab
  • On stud (registered) breeding farms, certain lambs are left to grow to ramhood.1992, Louie Wayne Attebery, Sheep May Safely Graze, page 106. From the entry ramhood
  • This idea arose in view of the anomotreme pollen-grains studded with apertures.1988, Subhash Chandra Datta, Systematic Botany, →ISBN, page 71. From the entry anomotreme
  • Now most pickup tonneaus snap onto studs screwed into the bodywork.1982 March, “How to improve your pickup′s mileage”, in Popular Mechanics, page 102. From the entry tonneau
  • Otherwise, both horned and poll sheep continue to be bred from an inner stud.1970, The Pastoral review, volume 80, page 457. From the entry poll
  • She started to speak, but the peek queeped, and she studded it on.1969 August, Harlan Ellison, “Along the Scenic Route”, in Adam. From the entry queep
  • It's crazy, a stud like you paying that dame that you told me about, double sawbucks.1969, Waldo Salt, Midnight Cowboy, spoken by Ratso (Dustin Hoffman). From the entry double sawbuck
  • There lay his stud of polished darlings, the belamped streamlined docile monsters of years of collecting.1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 304. From the entry belamped
  • “Democracity” is studded with Trylons and Perispheres, slides on Heliclines and sploshes in Aquacades.1939 May 11, “Notes & Topics”, in The Architects' Journal, page 758. From the entry helicline
  • Studs was so helpless that Red Kelly had to take him home.1934, James T. Farrell, chapter 16, in The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan. From the entry paregoric
  • Another very important feature of Sunny Bank is the stud of Alsatian wolf dogs.1925 February 13, Comyns Lewer and S. H. Lewer, editors, The Feathered World, volume 72, page 263. From the entry Alsatian wolf dog
  • Labour's deputy leader went in studs up.2023 October 31, John Crace, Depraved New World: Please Hold, the Government Will Be With You Shortly, Faber & Faber, →ISBN. From the entry studs up

Meaning of stud

  1. noun A male animal, especially a stud horse (stallion), kept for breeding.
  2. noun A female animal, especially a studmare (broodmare), kept for breeding.
  3. noun A group of broodmares or other animals kept for breeding.

Full definition of stud

Questions about stud in a sentence

How do you use stud in a sentence?
Stud is used as a noun and verb. For example: “She's wearing studs in her ears.”
What is a short sentence with stud?
“a collar with studs”
What does stud mean?
Stud means a male animal, especially a stud horse (stallion), kept for breeding.

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