stiletto

noun

Definition of stilettonext
as in dagger

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Recent Examples of stiletto Patent leather stilettos and a David Yurman gold chain necklace topped off her look. — Hannah Malach, WWD, 5 Mar. 2025 Palmer paired it with a black Le City bag, sheer tights, and red-bottomed, Christian Louboutin stilettos. — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 27 Feb. 2025 Turns out, chic and (relatively) comfy stilettos do exist—go figure. — Jessica Kasparian, SELF, 20 Feb. 2025 Even guests at the Marlin were straining to see performer Kevin Aviance, seven feet tall from wig to stiletto, lip-syncing Donna Summer’s Love to Love You, Baby atop a humongous Lite beer truck. — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 20 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for stiletto
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stiletto
  1. dagger
  2. switchblade
  3. knife
  4. bayonet
  5. machete
  6. pocketknife
  7. cutlass
  8. bodkin
Noun
  • The Lakers landed two resounding blows that should have served as daggers.
    — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 28 Mar. 2025
  • In a close game with two minutes left, the player most likely to produce a dagger is Mississippi guard Sean Pedulla.
    — Jon Wilner, Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2025
Definition of dagger
Noun
  • In June 2021, Joel Arciniega-Saenz stabbed James Garcia 84 times and severed a finger with a switchblade before decapitating him, according to a March 5 news release by the Doña Ana County District Attorney’s Office.
    — Paloma Chavez, Sacramento Bee, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Other Nixon advertisements showed images of urban riots, street crime and student protesters alongside pictures of rifles, switchblades and hypodermic needles.
    — Jonathan Zimmerman, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2025
Definition of switchblade
Noun
  • Lala Kent is hoping to go back under the knife after noticing changes in her body following her second pregnancy.
    — Vanessa Etienne, People.com, 26 Mar. 2025
  • From the tactical Swiss army knives like Jones, Phil Foden, Lewis-Skelly and James to the star players such as Bellingham and Kane, Tuchel has plenty to work with.
    — James Nalton, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025
Definition of knife
Noun
  • For the occasion, the office of the local governor had prepared an elaborate ceremony, with a military band and an honor guard standing at attention, the bayonets of their rifles glinting in the sun.
    — Simon Shuster, TIME, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Striking miners were astonished to discover soldiers from the U.S. Army disembarking from train cars, their bayonets glittering in the frosty air.
    — Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
Definition of bayonet
Noun
  • Ortega’s accomplice, who is still being sought, threatened the victim with a machete before running off with the victim’s laptop, wallet, credit cards, and cell phone, officials said.
    — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 20 Mar. 2025
  • An Islamist group linked to Islamic State called the AFD is feared to have beheaded the victims with machetes in the province of North Kivu, highlighting the violence against Christians in some parts of the globe.
    — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Mar. 2025
Definition of machete
Noun
  • The argument turned violent when Grier brandished a pocketknife, then got a bayonet-style knife with a long blade, the release said.
    — Ryan Oehrli, Charlotte Observer, 20 Feb. 2025
  • The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) routinely confiscates a variety of objects from passengers, from pocketknives to high-end electronics.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 11 Feb. 2025
Definition of pocketknife
Noun
  • 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.
    — 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.
    — Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2024
Definition of cutlass
Noun
  • Icke also occasionally cues up some Bob Dylan songs, chosen for their on-the-bodkin lyrics.
    — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 30 June 2022
  • Punishment for cursing or disparaging a clergyman was having a bodkin — a large needle — driven through the tongue.
    — Michael E. Ruane, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2017
Definition of bodkin

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