knifelike

Example Sentences

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The knifelike, chest-high vegetation that gives new resonance to the term “blades of grass.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

Getting to those seeds isn’t easy, even for a bird with a knifelike beak.

From Science Magazine • Aug. 31, 2021

Three years ago, on a trip to Johannesburg, I had the chance to watch the artist William Kentridge working on a new production of Alban Berg’s knifelike opera “Wozzeck.”

From New York Times • Dec. 26, 2019

Jackhammers, roaring buses, women striding into traffic, knifelike in their high, sharp heels, past windows full of faces, products, bright admonishments, light, and dust.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 8, 2019

She envisioned the knifelike teeth and bottlebrush tail, the way each of its black claws had curled in the earth as it tensed.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray