knife

Example Sentences

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Nevertheless, investors should watch Bitcoin through the long weekend with the Middle East situation on a knife edge and market-moving news all but inevitable.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

“Equipped with a prosthesis simulating a glass eye over his pupil,” we are told, Mr. Day-Lewis “practiced hitting it with the tip of his knife without batting an eyelid.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

We’re left with a nightmare of identity that feels slighter than it should, unsure of where to point its knife.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026

When you drag your knife through it, it should yield — not squish, not resist — just yield.

From Salon • Mar. 11, 2026

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.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom