How to Use knife in a Sentence

knife

1 of 2 noun
  • He pulled a knife on me and threatened to stab me with it.
  • Each dinner guest gets two forks, a knife, and a spoon.
  • Slice in half and rotate the knife in the fleshy area around the pit in the middle.
    Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 24 Aug. 2023
  • With a large knife, trim the top and bottom of the eggplant.
    Sally Pasley Vargas, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Don’t slash the wound with a knife or try to suck out venom.
    Helena Wegner, Sacramento Bee, 5 Apr. 2024
  • The night before, two blacks killed a white guy with a knife.
    Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
  • And Diana just got a pen knife out and just dealt with it.
    Stephanie Kaloi, Peoplemag, 22 Sep. 2023
  • The man with the knife slashed the Owner’s tires with the knife and pointed the knife at the Spouse before leaving on foot.
    Luke Barr, ABC News, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Spoons: Place these to the right of the knife, again, going outward in order of course.
    Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Loosen the edges: Run a knife around the edge of the cheesecake before cooling to avoid cracks in the center.
    Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 22 Nov. 2023
  • With a pastry blender or 2 blunt knives, stir the mixture.
    Karoline Boehm Goodnick, BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2023
  • Keep in Mind The knife should be hand-washed and dried after every use.
    Maya Polton, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Officers found her car still in the parking lot and a knife sheath near one of the tires.
    Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 12 Jan. 2024
  • This saves the knife’s edge for when it is truly needed.
    Jim Cobb, Field & Stream, 14 June 2023
  • The affidavit says Fuller pointed the knife at Miles, who had the gun by his side.
    Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2023
  • We were each given an apron, a set of knives, a cutting board, and a task.
    Leila Milgrim, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 July 2023
  • Clark Schwartzkopf :Both the knife wounds were the exact same position.
    Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2023
  • Sometimes a person just needs to own a big, heavy, stupid knife.
    Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 19 Nov. 2023
  • Two knives were found by Ford's body, the documents said.
    Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The meat, hot or cold, tastes the most tender when sliced very thin; an electric knife does a good job.
    Sunset Magazine, 28 Dec. 2023
  • The suspect then stabbed him three times, with the knife piercing his heart, Kenny said.
    Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Ephron told the court Phillips appeared to be concealing a knife.
    Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Use these tombstone templates and cut out the designs with a craft knife.
    Amanda Garrity, Good Housekeeping, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Use a bench scraper or a knife to portion the dough into 10 even (90-gram) pieces.
    Yewande Komolafe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Police found Ford face up with a chain saw by his right foot and two knives nearby.
    Ben Brasch, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Working quickly using a thin, sharp knife, make 3 (about 4-inch-long, 1/4-inch-deep) cuts across the top of the loaf.
    Paige Grandjean, Southern Living, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The victim was stabbed once in the back with a knife and sustained a laceration.
    Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Within hours, Hooker put a knife to her throat and threatened to kill her.
    Diana Pearl, Peoplemag, 5 Sep. 2023
  • But there also were reports of people with guns and knives there throughout the evening.
    Lia Russell, Baltimore Sun, 6 July 2023
  • Using a sharp, floured knife, cut into 5 (2-inch) pieces.
    Ronni Lundy, Southern Living, 25 Dec. 2023
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knife

2 of 2 verb
  • He died after being knifed in the chest.
  • Then the lead was knifed to 10 points on Scott's touchdown.
    Rich Exner, cleveland, 3 Dec. 2019
  • Police say Momeni knifed Lee in the ribs in the early hours of April 4.
    Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Then the Browns knifed that lead to 10-9 with Kelly's first touchdown.
    Rich Exner, cleveland, 3 Dec. 2019
  • Tyrann Mathieu knifed past Jones to hit Johnson in the backfield.
    Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 6 Nov. 2019
  • Five plays later, Ohio scored when Otis knifed over from one-yard out.
    Nathan Baird, cleveland, 27 Nov. 2019
  • The wind knifed through the cracks in the houses, rattling coffee cups laid out on kitchen tables.
    Skip Hollandsworth, Esquire, 5 Apr. 2016
  • Unless the john is a jumpy type, in which case the girls may be required to slug, bite or knife him and leave the remains on the street.
    Gail Sheehy, Daily Intelligencer, 9 Sep. 2017
  • And there was Miki in the third quarter against Leilehua, knifing off the edge to blindside the QB for a 12-yard sack.
    Austin Murphy, SI.com, 25 Oct. 2017
  • This is ominous—Zecchini goes still as a corpse and knifes downward in the dark.
    Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 19 July 2023
  • Less than a minute later, Robinson knifed through the key, lofting in the layup to put Golden State up nine points.
    Connor Letourneau, SFChronicle.com, 3 Feb. 2020
  • One man, 75, was stabbed in the neck and another, 77, was knifed in the back, authorities said.
    NBC News, 9 July 2019
  • What was evident to the paramedics was that Na’or had been knifed three times, from behind his shoulder.
    Geraldine Brooks, The New Yorker, 27 May 2017
  • Head’s team knifed its way to a championship and promotion to the Gori Super League.
    Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 20 July 2023
  • One drive later, Penn State knifed through Michigan again -- gashing the Wolverines through the air and on the ground on zone reads and run-pass option plays.
    Nick Baumgardner, Detroit Free Press, 21 Oct. 2017
  • Watson knifed into the end zone with his first NFL pass reception.
    Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 2 Dec. 2019
  • These days, just knifing through the clutter is surely worth something.
    Brian Lowry, CNN, 9 Sep. 2019
  • That’s asking to be knifed or shot, not just knocked upside the head, as the local transit passenger was.
    Julio Ojeda-Zapata, Twin Cities, 23 May 2017
  • Barton knifed through the defense with his typical panache and Porter found his 12 first-half points through all kinds of manners.
    Mike Singer, The Denver Post, 29 Dec. 2019
  • Majors, 18, was attacked and knifed to death on Dec. 11 in Morningside Park.
    Fox News, 27 Dec. 2019
  • Ibieta added one more bucket to the run muscling in a layup, but Riverside's Isaiah Bigham responded knifing through the lane for a layup of his own.
    Josh Preston, NOLA.com, 24 Dec. 2017
  • Over the course of a few days in April, two men were killed and a woman was knifed through the fabric of her tent, leaving her alive but in critical condition.
    Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2023
  • Three men with fake suicide vests began to knife people on a Saturday night out.
    Thomas Penny, Bloomberg.com, 4 June 2017
  • However, shark fins knifed the vodka-clear water, and we were ordered back to shore.
    Anne Calcagno, chicagotribune.com, 22 Dec. 2017
  • Allowing UMass to knife through the Tiger defense on its first touch was the blemish but the Minutemen wouldn’t return to the end zone until the fourth quarter.
    Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 3 Sep. 2023
  • One simulation found that the shadows of the highest towers may knife a mile into the park on the winter solstice.
    Catherine Cusick, Longreads, 21 June 2018
  • Adams is outstanding at attacking his run fits and knifing his way into the backfield to make plays as a blitzer.
    John Owning, Dallas News, 27 Jan. 2020
  • On a fourth-and-goal, the strong hands of Alshon Jeffery sandwich the end points of the football that Wentz had knifed in between traffic, and the receiver pits it against his left quad in the end zone.
    Jenny Vrentas, SI.com, 12 Dec. 2017
  • Dombrowski took over for Ben Cherington, who was knifed in the back less than two years after winning the 2013 World Series.
    BostonGlobe.com, 26 Oct. 2019
  • The versatile veteran with the long blond dreadlocks knifed through the Giants’ protection and blocked Riley Dixon’s punt at the 19-yard line late in the first quarter.
    BostonGlobe.com, 11 Oct. 2019

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