knives
Example Sentences
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She wants knives removed from shelves and placed in locked cabinets behind shop counters to eliminate the risk of theft.
From BBC
Skaters spin four times in the air and land on a pair of knives.
Razelle Swimmer carried around a puppet of the Swedish Chef from the Muppets, brandishing knives and wearing an apron that said “Eat the Rich.”
From Los Angeles Times
Even in 1842, Charles Dickens noticed the near-ubiquity of guns in America, describing the “grisly assortment of guns and knives” Americans carried and pointing out how quickly fatal disputes developed.
From Salon
In the second box, I find a set of three knives wrapped in a leather pouch.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
