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

Aimee felt tears burning behind her eyes and that sharp, knifelike twinge in her throat that always signaled a flood of tears.

From "Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story" by Nora Raleigh Baskin