But the torch had burned to a tiny stub, and soon even that would be consumed.

The covering seemed to be stiff leather, with a tiny stub of fuse sticking out of one side.

One, young and bearded, was smoking the tiny stub of a cigarette.

Unlike its larger relative Hesperornis, the manual bones were not fully reduced, and it seems to have retained a tiny, finger-like stub.

Both were still evident in 1938, but by 1966 the basin had been reduced to a tiny stub.

Richard Weese, a beefy man chewing on a tiny stub of a cigar, insists he is no liberal.

They also have no legs and their antennae are reduced to tiny stubs.

The only traces of wings were tiny stubs that stuck out as the birds reared upward.

His cigarette, neglected in the ashtray, had burned down to a tiny stub.