dagger

Example Sentences

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One woman said: "It has been cloak and dagger throughout this whole process. We can't get a straight answer as to what has changed so drastically to allow the park to be built on?"

From BBC

Lloyd-Hall lunged at Harry with a pointed dagger, metres from where uniformed police officers were stationed.

From BBC

Lloyd-Hall, now aged 18, pushed forward and lunged at Harry with a pointed dagger, metres from where uniformed police officers were stationed.

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Inequality, they know, is a dagger to the heart of democracy — and it’s one they enthusiastically wield.

From Salon

In March he said that the controversy around Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone was like a "dagger to the heart" of BBC impartiality.

From BBC