How to Use the rub in a Sentence

the rub

noun

• But here’s the rub: What feels right changes from day to day, run to run.
  — Jonathan Beverly, Outside Online, 3 Mar. 2020
• As Covid has shown, all of this could change in the the rub of an eye or a small cough.
  — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 11 June 2024
• The higher the rub count, the more long-wearing the fabric.
  — Kristina McGuirk, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Mar. 2023
• Here’s the rub—and there’s often a rub with a release like this.
  — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 17 Mar. 2024
• Yet, and here’s the rub, actors also see the rise of deepfakes as a chance to cash in.
  — WIRED, 18 Oct. 2022
• That is the rub that’s happening in the debates in meeting rooms.
  — Antwan Staley, New York Daily News, 11 Apr. 2024
• Here’s the rub: Experts are divided about what The Body Shop should do next.
  — Jacqueline Kilikita, refinery29.com, 28 Feb. 2024
• But, here's the rub: A twin flame connection is not always an easy one.
  — Jacqueline Tempera, Women's Health, 19 Aug. 2023
• But here’s the rub: Not all of these card benefits cover EVs.
  — Chris Velazco, Washington Post, 28 July 2023
• But here’s the rub: Not all of these card benefits cover EVs.
  — Chris Velazco, Washington Post, 1 July 2024
• There’s the rub for Buffy and a lot of collaborative art.
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Jan. 2023
• And there’s the rub: Where there’s an audience, there’s a market, and the unusual sells.
  — Paul Croughton, Robb Report, 6 Aug. 2023
• And that’s the rub: Long waits and staff stretched thin are the natural by-products of overexpansion.
  — Maria Aspan, Fortune, 2 May 2024
• But here’s the rub: the barbeque is a wedding reception for his mother and his uncle.
  — David Catlin, The Enquirer, 6 Mar. 2024
• And there’s the rub: when Waters stuck to rock star accoutrements that were acceptable in both the ‘80s and the present day (Guitar solos!
  — Mark Sutherland, Variety, 7 June 2023
• And there’s the rub: The writer peers into a glass darkly, searching for God, but his own reflection stares back.
  — Hamilton Cain, WSJ, 26 Dec. 2023
• Here’s the rub, though: Oreste stayed in town and became the deeply feared and ruthless head of a local mob that essentially rules the Sanità area.
  — Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2023
• And that’s the rub with the Heat’s current power rotation – there are no easy answers beyond Bam.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 18 Nov. 2022
• Here’s the rub: The performance share units and restricted stock units won’t vest for another three years.
  — Byamanda Gerut, Fortune, 15 June 2024
• Sprinkle 1 teaspoon of the rub inside the body cavity and 1/2 teaspoon inside the neck cavity of the chicken.
  — Kate Bradshaw, The Mercury News, 13 May 2024
• Here’s the rub: To date, Nothing has released nothing but earbuds and cell phones—none of which have changed the market dramatically.
  — Parker Hall, WIRED, 5 Apr. 2024
• Here is the rub, though: Prices at the wholesale level are falling, precipitously.
  — Jon Markman, Forbes, 18 July 2022
• The widespread interest in gen AI has created a massive wave of use cases and experiments—and there’s the rub.
  — Byrodney Zemmel, Fortune, 15 May 2024
• That Disney, a massive entertainment giant that holds the purse strings of dominant culture, now owns Deadpool is sort of the rub too.
  — Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 21 June 2024
• And there’s the rub for Democrats, and Independents and Libertarians.
  — John Archibald | [e-mail], al, 25 May 2022
• And here’s the rub: causal power by itself, the ability to make the system do one thing rather than many other alternatives, cannot be simulated.
  — Christof Koch, Scientific American, 8 Sep. 2023
• As with any executive order, the rub is in how a sprawling and abstract document will be turned into concrete action.
  — WIRED, 14 Nov. 2023
• This sort of thing—a rant, about tech industry types at Burning Man, posted on a social media site, then shared on other social media sites—is essentially the rub, the irony of Burning Man in 2023.
  — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 5 Sep. 2023
• But here’s the rub: chasing validation from others often leads to frustration.
  — Remy Blumenfeld, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Aug. 2024
• But here is the rub: the Biden administration’s actions to field a military that could actually deny a Chinese invasion of Taiwan do not appear to match its rhetoric.
  — Elbridge Colby, Foreign Affairs, 10 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024