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knife

[nahyf] / naɪf /




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Police recovered from the flat a knife with Nurse's blood on it, a bag marked "HMP valuables" and prison records in Sabat's name.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

In the future, once-proud musicians such as John “would only be footnotes in Chopin’s biography,” Ms. Li adds, twisting the knife.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

There’s been talk of bargain hunting and fears of catching a falling knife.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 3, 2026

Maybe it’s knowing you won’t have to pull out another knife for three days.

From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2026

“Will, quick, get water. Get the brandy flask from Midnight’s saddle. Lay a knife in the fire. Hurry, Will.”

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

Abdullah Albadri was carrying two knives when police officers caught him as he tried to climb over a fence into the Kensington embassy on 28 April 2025.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

“I switch out my pans, and I’m careful with knives and cutting boards to avoid cross contamination,” said Charlie Granquist, chef at Slough Farm.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 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

At The Yard, a junkyard playground on a former Coast Guard installation in New York City, children play with hammers, saws and knives.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

The witch-queen took her portion of roasted hare, and one of the knives, and sprinkled a little of the herbs onto the dish.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman

A blocks-long motorcade glides along freeways closed to traffic and knifes through city streets cleared specially for her path.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2024

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

The fluorescent light knifes me in the eyes, and the smell of pies and sauce makes me want to vomit.

From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak

The season was hanging by a thread a few minutes later as Yates knifed through a crowd of Rutgers defenders.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2025

Al-Shifa was the same hospital where Jihad had been born five months earlier — five months of searching all day for a little food, of nearly getting knifed over a little flour.

From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2024

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

From Washington Post ● Apr. 16, 2023

The brick stairs knifed past a garden, where lizards darted among eroded stone sculptures and palm trees wore their dead fronds like mangy beards.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2023

Headlights knifed through the darkness, all turned toward the Fullers’ porch.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez

The Hawks stutter-stepped and jabbed their way to the free throw line with deft ease, knifing the hosts from beyond the arc when they weren’t dancing inside the key.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 4, 2022

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

It came knifing in through the tiny peep-hole in the pocket and whooshed around her like a hurricane.

From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl




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