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knife

[nahyf] / naɪf /




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The metallic clang of sharp claws should evoke mythic combat, not knife prep at a roast beef station.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

Police say a 43-year-old man was arrested at the scene, and a knife seized, but they have not said Haines was hit deliberately.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

The 43-year-old male driver of the vehicle was detained by civilians, Mason said, before being arrested by police, who found a knife in his car.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

Cameron Winter had one last knife to twist for the Dodger faithful in the audience at Hollywood Forever on Thursday night.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Pa scratched his cheek with the dull side of his knife.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney

Air regulations ban all blades with sharp points and typically blunt knives longer than six centimeters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

But local media published images from different parts of Botswana showing residents gathering around elephant carcasses, some with knives in hand and sharing the meat.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Just remember, the bigger the knives you are juggling, the more likely you are to hurt yourself.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

And the Sunday Express reports on a "flood" of illegal knives into the UK.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

My father and great-uncle got their knives and spears and left their houses to meet the other men of the village.

From "Lost Boy, Lost Girl" by John Bul Dau

And then he retraced his steps across the 150-foot wide thoroughfare that knifes through the heart of the city along what once was the Red Car line of the Pacific Electric Railway.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2026

Speaking to broadcasters during a visit to Kilburn police station in north west London, Mr Sunak said there was "no reason" why such knifes should be on the streets.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2023

Take Can a woman win the election: a sly, mean, ego-saving little canard that knifes both its subject and its verb in order to spare the real actor here.

From Slate ● Jan. 14, 2020

I picture her crumpling into the nearest chair the way one sometimes does when bad news knifes through that thin veil of hope mixed with denial.

From New York Times ● Sep. 14, 2016

I hear the catch in his voice, and it knifes through me.

From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson

Anthony Macias knifed through the line to block a punt at the goal line, and Max Magana recovered the ball in the end zone to give Pacifica a 14-6 lead late in the first quarter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2024

Folsom threatened to regain the lead late in the third quarter, but Drew Cofield knifed through the line to block Lincoln Phelps’ 32-yard field-goal attempt and teammate David Montes recovered.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2023

He pointed his arms to the clear spring sky, knifed by the vapor trails of passing airplanes.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 16, 2023

He knifed through a seam between his blockers and somehow scampered all the way down the sideline untouched.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 15, 2023

Below the Wheel Tower, they made a wide turn and knifed through the churning water.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

He didn’t shy from knifing through traffic and taking the ball to the basket, oftentimes hitting the floor hard.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 24, 2022

Point guard Ja Morant’s knifing drives into the defense is central to that — but he has also expanded his range.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2022

They make it look easy: crisp gymnastics through the air, knifing impact with the water and barely a splash upon entry.

From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2021

Bolsonaro, 66, has been in the Sao Paulo hospital since Wednesday for treatment relating to an obstructed intestine following the 2018 knifing.

From Reuters ● Jul. 17, 2021

She looked up from washing dishes and saw the river full of small sailboats leaning toward the far shore and knifing toward the bridge which was not in her view.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy


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