penknife

Example Sentences

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She said police were able to catch Fatafteh because of his DNA on Hartuv’s penknife, which she managed to thrust at him.

From The Wall Street Journal

She had been playing in a communal stairwell when Wilkes came out of his flat and stabbed her with a penknife three times, once to her jaw, then her shoulder and knee.

From BBC

The surgeon in the penknife case, who the BBC is not naming, was operating on a patient at the Royal Sussex Hospital in Brighton when he struggled to find a scalpel.

From BBC

In others, he utilized a metal comb, or a penknife’s back, or a razor’s edge.

From Los Angeles Times

And their behavior made them notorious, as when Capote threw himself a lavish masquerade party, the Black and White Ball, or when Mailer almost killed his wife by stabbing her with a penknife.

From Washington Post