knife
Example Sentences
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If I was washing out clothes in the basin or sharpening the point on my homemade knife when the ants appeared, I stopped The Hidi ng Place at once to give them my full attention.
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It was like a knife you could cut through time, a hole you could punch in the universe.
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‘You never did –repair yours. And -swap knives.’
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Taking the knife out of my hand, she began slicing the meat in strips as thin as matchsticks.
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That knife was missing from the house and has never been recovered.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.