How to Use dagger in a Sentence

dagger

noun

• The dagger came in the final minute of the third quarter.
  — Kevin Reynolds, Dallas News, 9 Jan. 2021
• Her work tends to feel, in general, like an enormous, fuzzy pink jumper wrapped around a dagger.
  — New York Times, 17 Dec. 2020
• Four bladesmiths are faced with a gigantic challenge: scaling down a nine-foot dagger to a fifth of its size.
  — Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2020
• Grant didn’t just drain the dagger 3-pointer Friday night in the comeback win against Phoenix.
  — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 10 Jan. 2021
• The derogatory comments toward the people in the hospital felt like a dagger to my heart.
  — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 8 Dec. 2020
• When the client’s claim is a dagger aimed at the system itself, lawyers have a responsibility to refuse to wield it.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2020
• Last year wrought many different kinds of hell on the people of the world, but Taco Bell removing potatoes from its menu over the summer was the final dagger for some fast food fans.
  — Abigail Rosenthal, Chron, 14 Jan. 2021
• Donovan Peoples-Jones was a dagger, and a great example of what Kevin Stefanski’s offense can do.
  — Scott Patsko, cleveland, 6 Dec. 2020
• But a couple of years later, according to Cyr, Fournier one day became enraged, confessed to killing the Dahls and rushed at Cyr's wife with a small dagger.
  — Curt Brown Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 12 Dec. 2020
• The book can feel like a dagger that stabs you again and again.
  — Peter C. Baker, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2022
• That set up the dagger in the bottom half of the inning.
  — Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 26 Mar. 2022
• Now there’s a lot of subterfuge and a lot of cloak and dagger.
  — Matthew Schneier, Vulture, 15 Apr. 2021
• The final turnover of the night from Hall was the dagger, a 65-yard pick-six from Rickie Williams.
  — al, 9 Sep. 2023
• At points, the show is more of a cabaret than a narrative aimed like a dagger at the heart.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
• V-neck cut, which is dagger-sharp and hits right at the sternum.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 21 Oct. 2022
• The iron dagger of King Tutankhamen with its gold sheath.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 23 Feb. 2022
• Then there were the final two daggers, late in the fourth quarter.
  — The Arizona Republic, 17 Feb. 2023
• On Google Maps, the reservoir shows up as a blue dagger stabbing the heart of Diyala.
  — Marcus Yam, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2021
• The knife was a dagger-type blade and the BB gun was solid black and looked like a real weapon.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 11 June 2021
• But that’s as far as this cloak-and-dagger caper took me.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 26 Oct. 2021
• Among the most intriguing finds made at the site is a 2,000-year-old iron dagger.
  — Isis Davis-Marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 May 2021
• But a dagger layup by Hayes and 3 by Cunningham sealed the win.
  — Omari Sankofa Ii, Detroit Free Press, 15 Jan. 2022
• Jae Crowder answered with a dagger 3 to put the game away.
  — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 31 May 2021
• Two plays later, Etienne found the end zone once more, which would be the dagger in this one.
  — Scott Thompson, Fox News, 8 Oct. 2023
• Even after this dagger to the heart, Dunn wasn’t willing to give up on the novel.
  — oregonlive, 3 Oct. 2022
• One was a heart with wings on her right wrist and the other was a rose with a dagger on her shoulder blade.
  — Veronica Fulton, NBC News, 2 Oct. 2022
• The two Leonard hit late in the fourth followed by Gordon’s final 3 proved to be daggers.
  — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 17 Apr. 2023
• But that was as close the Panthers would get the rest of the way, and a Finke three with 35.6 seconds remaining was the dagger.
  — Todd Rosiak, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 Dec. 2021
• The 19-year-old pauses to mimic Elektra's sai dagger hand twirls.
  — EW.com, 1 Aug. 2024
• Irving averaged 30 points over the final three games of that series including hitting the dagger shot over Stephen Curry.
  — Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 June 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024