shiv
Example Sentences
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Sharp as a shiv but wickedly playful, Nick Harkaway's near-future noir sends Cal Sounder, an all too human detective, into the realm of literal giants.
From Scientific American ● May 31, 2023
Best known from his many film, television and voice-over performances as a twinkling human Yoda, he writes himself into his plays as a schlump concealing a shiv.
From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2021
The story “White Noise,” published this summer in the New Yorker but not included in “Daddy,” brings Cline’s work to a sharper point; it’s like a prison shiv carved out of a toothbrush.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2020
“There are leaks and then there are people using the press to shiv each other in the ribs,” she said.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 28, 2017
On Fox News that same morning, Kellyanne Conway, a counselor to the president, described the leaks that Scaramucci was ranting about as “people using the press to shiv each other in the ribs.”
From Washington Post ● Jul. 27, 2017
