Adjective modifier

• brave: Caffé Uno makes a brave stab at both offering traditional Italian fare and the tourist friendly salads, baked potatoes and the like.

• decent: Solid and dependable rather than particularly thrilling or exciting, a decent enough stab at hard rock glory.

• fatal: It was at this point that she collapsed from her injuries, a fatal stab wound to her chest.

Modifies a noun

• wound: The Judge said: " There were 14 stab wounds which was a fiendish attack on an elderly lady.

• incision: Consider packing the bleeding area with a 6 meter pack, led out of the abdomen via a separate stab incision.

• vest: Officers wore protective clothing and stab vests as they searched the homes, but were not armed, a police spokesman said.

• jacket: In the stern of a dive kayak is a place where you can stow your cylinder and stab jacket.

Noun used with modifier

• horn: Laid back funkiness with gentle guitar and gentle horn stabs.

• guitar: The rhythms, tone, handclaps, guitar stabs and other ornamentation are so close it's almost spooky.

Preposition: in

• throat: Unfortunately, she was re-captured and still refusing to honor pagan gods, she was stabbed in the throat and beheaded.

• dark: Go on, have a stab in the dark.