knife
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“As a boy, I’d start weeping. And boys don’t cry; I’d blubber. I couldn’t help it — it was like a knife going into me. And my father said, ‘What’s the matter with you?’
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
Wales' only two-Michelin-star restaurant which received a one-star food hygiene rating after inspectors found flies, broken equipment and a dirty knife has had its five-star rating restored.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
The Daily Mirror meanwhile celebrates that knife amnesties mean there are "40 knives a day off our streets".
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
Only a true and blustery hero can string it, much as we believe that only Damon can win a knife fight by wielding a pen.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026
I reached for the first potato and the knife that swung on its hook and began to cut.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
Handheld multitools are a great item to keep on hand, with many options featuring various knives, bottle openers, screwdrivers, and even scissors.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
Arrabaca had two axes, a hammer, a machete, six fireworks and three fixed-blade knives, Barnacle said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Why did he keep a box of knives under his bed?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026
Selling such knives to under-18s is against the law.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
But even two knives wouldn’t help him cut through logs.
From "The River" by Gary Paulsen
And then he retraced his steps across the 150-foot wide thoroughfare that knifes through the heart of the city along what once was the Red Car line of the Pacific Electric Railway.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2026
Take Can a woman win the election: a sly, mean, ego-saving little canard that knifes both its subject and its verb in order to spare the real actor here.
From Slate ● Jan. 14, 2020
I picture her crumpling into the nearest chair the way one sometimes does when bad news knifes through that thin veil of hope mixed with denial.
From New York Times ● Sep. 14, 2016
From aged three to about seven or eight, we don't let the children go near the cooker or use sharp knifes - maybe just a round-ended knife.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2013
I hear the catch in his voice, and it knifes through me.
From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson
Folsom threatened to regain the lead late in the third quarter, but Drew Cofield knifed through the line to block Lincoln Phelps’ 32-yard field-goal attempt and teammate David Montes recovered.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2023
He pointed his arms to the clear spring sky, knifed by the vapor trails of passing airplanes.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 16, 2023
The brick stairs knifed past a garden, where lizards darted among eroded stone sculptures and palm trees wore their dead fronds like mangy beards.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2023
The setting sun seems to set the ocean ablaze, while to its left, the tossing slaver appears to be swallowed up by a knifed spray of white.
From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2022
I kept my hands balled in the pockets of my jeans while the cold air knifed at my lungs.
From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez
Van Lith, whose first basket came on a knifing drive for a layup with 1:43 left in the second quarter, had two jumpers blocked by Beal and three turnovers in the first half.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 1, 2022
Point guard Ja Morant’s knifing drives into the defense is central to that — but he has also expanded his range.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2022
The 66-year-old president was taken to the Sao Paulo hospital for treatment relating to an obstructed intestine following the 2018 knifing.
From Reuters ● Jul. 18, 2021
He scored 22 points and had seven assists in 19 minutes before halftime, knifing through the paint and juking Washington defenders as if on skates with his repaired Achilles’ tendon.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 15, 2021
I looked up and squinted, and saw a black shadow knifing through the dusk light, the blades chopping as it drifted closer, dropping lower and lower as it approached Fullbrook.
From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely
