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  • noun Plural form of stubble.

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Examples

  • In Scotland you can still use lead on wildfowl over "dry" areas, such as stubbles etc.

    Army Rumour Service 2009

  • In Scotland you can still use lead on wildfowl over "dry" areas, such as stubbles etc.

    Army Rumour Service 2009

  • Extensions previously had to be cut out, leaving stubbles of hair.

    Courtney Cachet: The Real Deal on Hair Extensions Courtney Cachet 2012

  • Extensions previously had to be cut out, leaving stubbles of hair.

    Courtney Cachet: The Real Deal on Hair Extensions Courtney Cachet 2012

  • The stubbles have been ripped up by cultivation, some already ploughed and soon to be worked up to a seed-bed prior to drilling with winter cereals.

    Country diary: Staffordshire Moorlands 2010

  • So what if he is President and he has a meeting with an important foreign leader and he stubbles?

    McCain: 'I will veto every single beer' 2008

  • It hurled stubbles of weed everywhere, lifted kites flown from the roofs of mud hovels.

    A Thousand Splendid Suns Hosseini, Khaled 2007

  • SOMEONE ELSE writes a speech for him..he stubbles through it not having a clue on god's green earth what it means or what the implications are and you go all nuts in support.

    Here comes your "national nervous breakdown." Ann Althouse 2007

  • Marty reflected, and perceived that Mrs. Charmond must have recognized her plodding up the hill under the blaze of the lamp; recognized, probably, her stubbly poll (since she had kept away her face), and thought that those stubbles were the result of her own desire.

    The Woodlanders 2006

  • The gold of sinking sunlight lay on the stubbles; the leaves, hardly turned as yet, were just promising colour, and away down there the blue line of the river glinted through its bordering trees.

    Maid in Waiting 2004

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