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synonyms for stabbing
- acuminate
- barbed
- edged
- fine
- gnawing
- honed
- horned
- jagged
- keen
- peaked
- piercing
- pointed
- serrated
- sharpened
- shooting
- spiked
- stinging
- tapered
- tapering
- tined
- tipped
- whetted
- aciculate
- acuate
- acuminous
- acute
- apical
- briery
- cuspate
- cuspidate
- ground fine
- keen-edged
- knife-edged
- knifelike
- lancinating
- needlelike
- needle-pointed
- pointy
- prickly
- pronged
- razor-sharp
- salient
- sharp-edged
- spiky
- spiny
- splintery
- thorny
- unblunted
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How to use stabbing in a sentence
The specialist said it was unlikely that the stabbing had anything to do with the hiccups.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro hospitalized after 10 days of hiccups | Sammy Westfall | July 14, 2021 | Washington PostThe memo, issued only internally, had explicitly not passed judgement on the stabbing incident, but simply offered sympathies and provided a hotline for any staff needing psychological assistance in reaction to the news.
A soy milk company is feeling the pain of Hong Kong’s latest flashpoint with Beijing | Mary Hui | July 5, 2021 | QuartzWhile a majority of jurors wanted to convict him of the felony stabbing, according to two who spoke to The Post on the condition of anonymity, a handful were swayed by his testimony.
Jury trials are starting again. But the pandemic put some behind bars past their sentences. | Rachel Weiner | June 24, 2021 | Washington Post
A District Heights man was arrested Monday in connection with a fatal stabbing last week.
Gantt and Braxton knew one other and the stabbing stemmed from a dispute, according to police.
French officials were already on edge after a series of apparently unconnected attacks, including the stabbing of police officers.
U.S. Spies See Al Qaeda Fingerprints on Paris Massacre | Shane Harris, Nancy A. Youssef | January 8, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTAre you the kind of criminal who runs down the beach at night wielding a knife and stabbing every woman you pass?
I Felt Like Showering After the First-Person Sex in ‘Grand Theft Auto’ | Alec Kubas-Meyer | November 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTForty-five minutes were estimated to have elapsed from the time the stabbing began until the killer left.
He spoke of surviving a stabbing in 1958 when a woman attacked him at a book-signing.
Tavis Smiley Humanely Chronicles MLK’s Sad Last Year | Scott Porch | October 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe drew a black-handled kitchen knife and began repeatedly stabbing both children.
This Brooklyn 6-Year-Old’s Murderer Is Still on the Loose | Michael Daly | June 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt was on an occasion of the death of a man in this city by stabbing, who begged loudly for confession.
The first true pang of grief shot through Ethel like a dart, stabbing and taking away her breath, "Where are they?"
The Daisy Chain | Charlotte YongeBut now they were piling upon him, striking and stabbing, a living mound which for the moment concealed the big fellow.
A Virginia Scout | Hugh PendexterHe was going in now though, almost crawling, his breath coming in stabbing gasps, his hands torn and bleeding.
Time Enough at Last | Lyn VenableThose who survived uttered their yell and plunged into the corners, stabbing with their knives.
Overland | John William De Forest
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