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How To Use knife In A Sentence

• Some spring from immediately below the earth, and may more properly be termed suckers; the others grow on the visible part of the stem or caudex, often close to the oldest leaves; these should be cut off with a sharp knife, in early summer, and if they have a little of the parent bark attached to them all the better. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
• So, he got out his bread knife and trimmed the quarter-loaf down to a couple of slices of dry toast.
• The first exhibit was a knife which the prosecution claimed was the murder weapon.
• This knife needs sharpening.
• After several attempts to untie the knot, I admitted defeat and cut through it with a knife.
• My knife slips off the screw and with a grating screech marks the white surface of the machine.
• The knife landed with its point sticking into the floor.
• She used a knife to prise open the lid.
• Somebody comes forward, examines, and then draws from out the grave, where it has lain, directly under the body, a knife -- a knife of peculiar shape and workmanship -- a long, keen, _surgeon's knife_! The Diamond Coterie
• The slightest movement by either of us could have inserted the knife into his neck. Behind Closed Doors - advice for families with violence in the home