knife

Example Sentences

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“Kevin is extraordinary. He’s been like a Swiss army knife at Duquesne. He runs our private equity, he helps with economic forecasts. He handles the networking outside the firm.”

From MarketWatch • May 7, 2026

A man who intervened during a knife attack on a Jewish man in Golders Green has told the BBC how he was trying to save a life.

From BBC • May 3, 2026

The top shatters just slightly under a knife, giving way to a plush, chocolate-saturated center streaked with melted pockets.

From Salon • Apr. 28, 2026

The larger-than-life footballer died of heart failure and acute pulmonary edema -- a condition where fluid accumulates in the lungs -- two weeks after going under the knife.

From Barron's • Apr. 23, 2026

“What if those copper ingots and that bronze knife were from…a sea trader of the time of Odysseus and the Trojan wars?”

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler