dagger
Example Sentences
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Mousley KC said that Nowak asked Digwa if he was a "bad man", likely to have been prompted by him noticing the dagger.
From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026
"You were sober but were carrying a large Sikh dagger," Mousley said.
From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026
At a defense forum in Singapore on Saturday, Brunson was asked if his "dagger" remarks were "authorised or endorsed by the Pentagon".
From Barron's • May 30, 2026
The novel’s satisfying denouement is assured when a disgraced former colleague of Ben’s, gloriously named Richard Take, accepts the proverbial dagger from Martin.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026
He trotted about on the parapet, always sucking his paw, leaping from stone to stone, fighting off imaginary foes with his tiny dagger.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
Vocabulary lists containing dagger
"Macbeth": Act 1 Scene 7
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