shiv

Example Sentences

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Herculano-Houzel’s paper described T. rex as essentially wily enough to sharpen their own shivs.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2024

And Shiv . . . shivs it, offering nothing of substance.

From Salon • May 8, 2023

The Guatemalan director Jayro Bustamante is an expert at isolating chills in stillness; Alma’s fixed stares are like shivs.

From New York Times • Aug. 20, 2020

These words were often pointed—Sanders whittled political messages into shivs.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 17, 2018

When he wants to be, he’s very funny: The chapter that tracks a vicious, failing novelist shivs critics, ridicules the self-regard of writers, revels in the awfulness of book festivals.

From Slate • Sep. 2, 2014