shiv

Example Sentences

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Strong gusts distort people’s celebratory cries of “Jai mata di” and “Jai shiv shankar.”

From Seattle Times • Apr. 27, 2024

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

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