dagger

Example Sentences

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Supposedly “laid back” Los Angeles was rife with sharp elbows, daggers plunged in backs and a relentless quest for glory.

From Los Angeles Times

The Ducks found Long again coming out of the break, and she knocked down a third three-pointer, this one the dagger.

From Los Angeles Times

But in a yearlong critical examination of what happened and what didn’t, The Times has exposed multiple systemic failures, and questions linger like daggers over the heads of public officials.

From Los Angeles Times

I try not to make extended eye contact with any of the people around the table—everyone but Autumn is sending me daggers.

From Literature

As for Cassiopeia, she had knitted a collection of eye patches for playing at pirates, and a holster to fit a toy dagger that Beowulf had gnawed for her out of a fallen tree branch.

From Literature