Used in a Sentence

stunt

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for stunt.

Editorial note

I also wonder how much of the issue is because it was in some respects a publicity stunt.

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

A daring or dangerous feat, often involving the display of gymnastic skills.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of stunt gathered in one view.

noun

A daring or dangerous feat, often involving the display of gymnastic skills.

noun

An act or activity viewed as the outcome of a plan or scheme, often malicious or nefarious.

noun

A check in growth.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for stunt.

noun

A daring or dangerous feat, often involving the display of gymnastic skills.

noun

An act or activity viewed as the outcome of a plan or scheme, often malicious or nefarious.

noun

A check in growth.

noun

Ellipsis of publicity stunt. [A staged event used to garner publicity, usually for the purposes of marketing or activism.]

Example sentences

1

I also wonder how much of the issue is because it was in some respects a publicity stunt.

2

Yes, Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek's stunt had relatively low risk, but the difference is that they were risking the lives of innocent people who had nothing to do with it.

3

They directly put people's lives at risk to have a stunt to prove their point.

4

If they weren't being paid the same before this stunt, they weren't peers.

5

As a dev if my company pulled such a stunt I'd start Looking for a new job.

6

It's almost like a huge stunt is needed to get peoples' attention sometimes!

7

I didn't care either way until NVidia pulled the hairworks stunt, which was a pretty controversial move.

8

Even that would have helped (though I still think the stunt was dangerous enough for someone to go to jail).

9

A reminder: Dunn was charged with felonies for that stunt.

10

I've always seen these Amazon drone delivery stories as an elaborate PR stunt (I'd say an extremely successful one if it is...).

11

I think most of the current stuff they figured out when Justin did his initial stunt and it just picked up from there.

12

He's not saying that relative risk says the highway stunt was ok; in fact, he's saying the opposite, if you read all the way to the end.

Quote examples

1

The day before the "stunt hacking" Jeep were claiming it was not a problem[1].

2

You can tune BCrypt so that just "12345", by itself, is too painful to run across 32MM rows to be worth a PR stunt.

3

Maybe it was a marketing stunt just posting "Goodbye"...

4

>"Leah Brajcich, who oversees sales at Gravity, fielded complaints from several customers who accused her boss of communist or socialist sympathies that would drive up their own employees’ wages and others who felt it was a public relations stunt."

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use stunt in a sentence?

I also wonder how much of the issue is because it was in some respects a publicity stunt.

What does stunt mean?

A daring or dangerous feat, often involving the display of gymnastic skills.

What part of speech is stunt?

stunt is commonly used as noun.