stiletto

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Recent Examples of stiletto 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 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 
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Noun
  • The sentiment felt like a dagger, striking with unbearable pain.
    Hilary Tetenbaum, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Rohan Nadkarni That feels like a possible first-half dagger.
    Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 14 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • 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.
    Nina Turner, Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Well, some customers like to break it apart in other ways or slice it at home by knife.
    Miami Herald File, Miami Herald, 13 Jan. 2025
  • After the bar closes, Jimenez prepares to kill Tommy with a knife.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 12 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • 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.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 8 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Almost a year after his death, one of his former friends – the one who’d kept a machete beside his bed – was still bitterly haunted.
    Martin McKenzie-Murray, SPIN, 7 Jan. 2025
  • That same year, 16 people were killed after a Uyghur attacked dozens of Chinese police officers with a dump truck and machetes.
    Jaclyn Diaz, NPR, 4 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • At the Williamsburg International Airport in Virginia, a pocketknife was found shoved inside someone’s shoe.
    Lauren Irwin, The Hill, 9 Jan. 2025
  • After all, what says hardcore quite like amputating your own fingertip with a pocketknife?
    Sarah Goodman, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2025
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
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

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“Stiletto.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stiletto. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.

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