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

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

Bloated royalty offers plenty of succulent targets for Downie’s knifelike pen.

From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2018

And yet, when finally she stopped, she merely stopped, without the painful, knifelike intakes of breath that usually follow a violent outburst-inburst.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger