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Recent Examples of stilettoAguilera wore nothing but stiletto high heels, a black undergarment, and a matching beret on top of her hair that was styled in large curls.—Ingrid Vasquez, People.com, 19 Dec. 2024 Hold your stilettos between my teeth while carrying you
on my back through the city for a cartwheel
contest in the park?—Jennifer Harlan, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2024 And every single one of them had to be wearing stilettos.—Marc Griffin, VIBE.com, 29 Oct. 2024 Rounding out Kidman's look were a few rings, earrings, and pointed toe black stilettos.—Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 3 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for stiletto
Why did federal agents seize — and then return — $5 million worth of switchblades from a Colorado man?
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Parker Gabriel,
The Denver Post,
10 Jan. 2025
Led by vocalist Christina Michelle’s hair-raising screams, Deep Sage mangles everything in its path with thick basslines and switchblade guitars until the floor is bloodied but the air, at long last, is cleansed.
The department wrote that Ross turned toward an officer with the knife in hand.
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Emerson Clarridge,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
25 Jan. 2025
The pardons for those who attacked the U.S. Capitol included those who didn’t commit violence as well as those who carried firearms, Tasers, and knives into the melee, according to the U.S. attorney’s office.
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Patrik Jonsson,
The Christian Science Monitor,
24 Jan. 2025
Three Humvees, more than a dozen bayonets and other items were taken from a storage warehouse and parking lot at the Army Reserve Center in Tustin this week, and the thieves remain at large, police announced Friday.
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City News Service,
Orange County Register,
12 Jan. 2025
Our Most Popular Stories of 2021 This year, readers were into peanut butter and jelly, semi-conductors, bayonets, Victorian knitting manuals, plus the hard-working dogs of Medieval Europe.
Kevin Torres, David Sosa-Guevara, and Victor Lopez-Morales admitted to using machetes and guns in brutal killings carried out across Long Island, with each defendant now facing decades in federal prison.
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David Faris,
Newsweek,
18 Jan. 2025
Their group was known for extreme brutality and violence, including the murder of two Brentwood High School girls with a machete and a baseball bat.
The workers blamed Landi — who was still in charge — for their troubles, and an image of Landi posing, pirate-style, with a cartoon-villain expression and a cutlass between his teeth became a symbol for Eutelia’s misdeeds.
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Atossa Araxia Abrahamian Atossa Araxia Abrahamian,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2025
The ultimate prop was the pirate flag, which could be decorated with a skull and crossbones (as in the classic Jolly Roger design), bleeding hearts, hourglasses, spears, cutlasses and skeletons.
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Sean Kingsley,
Smithsonian Magazine,
15 May 2024
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