For several hundred yards around a bomb crater, the trees were mere black stubs, scorched and limbless.

Elsewhere, mere brown stubs indicated the distant mission of along-ago witchfinder.

The tail is rather short and becomes very narrow behind the cloaca in males; it is a mere stub in females.

He took the merest stub of a candle, placed it in a candlestick and lit it.4 Then he began to recite the spell.

He took the merest stub of a candle, placed it in a candlestick and lit it.

Eventually the yaw problem was traced to a lack of aerodynamic stability, and to fix this the upper vertical stabilizer was enlarged from a mere stub to one much larger.

Unlike caterpillars, however, the prolegs have no grasping spines, and the antennae are reduced to mere stubs.

Those candles were now down to a mere stub, flickering as though caught in a sudden draught And in that instant Sabat realised!

After the height was further reduced by partial collapses from 1570 to 1604, the main tower now rises barely above the church roof; at its sides are mere stubs.

She had a mere stub of tail.