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Recent Examples of stilettoHold 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 This includes everything from over-the-knee, platform boots that feature quilting along the sides and straps up the back of the calf, to one of this year’s trendiest silhouettes: simple stiletto slingbacks.—Mikelle Street, Them, 26 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for stiletto
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.
Madison Bloom,
Pitchfork,
4 Dec. 2024
Videos shared online as far back as May 2022 show Ukrainian troops using Switchblade suicide drones, which have wings that pop out like a switchblade and are made by U.S. defense contractor AeroVironment, to target Russian forces.
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.
City News Service,
Orange County Register,
12 Jan. 2025
In fact, up until World War II, the most common method for finding the explosives was to prod the ground with a pointed stick or bayonet.
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.
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