knife
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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