knife

Example Sentences

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He 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. 14, 2026

McKechnie had treated Anaheim Ducks ice hockey player Paul Kariya for a similar issue without him needing to go under the knife, and the Lakers liked the sound of that.

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026

It comes as the government is expected to set out more details of how it plans to meet its ambition to halve knife crime within a decade.

From BBC • Apr. 6, 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

“I wanted to know, what if you tried to cut another of the same kind of knife with it? Which would cut which?”

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell