Examples of knifepoint in a Sentence
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Richard Allen Davis, who is locked up at San Quentin State Prison, was sentenced to death for abducting 12-year-old Polly — now known as the first missing girl on the internet — from a sleepover at knifepoint and then strangling her to death.
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Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 6 Apr. 2024
Assistant police Chief Ed DeCastro said officers responded to an armed robbery call at a business and found that a woman had gone to medical urgent care for treatment after a man attempted to take the woman's car at gun- and knifepoint.
—Shelby Slade, The Arizona Republic, 21 Feb. 2024
Out on parole two years later, Misch allegedly entered another neighbor’s home wearing nothing but a jacket and held a mom and her two kids at knifepoint.
—Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 14 Feb. 2024
In the season 13 finale, Stephanie’s held at knifepoint by an unhinged patient, and ends up setting him on fire in order to save herself and the little girl in her company.
—TIME, 14 Mar. 2024
While truckers are sometimes hijacked at gun- or knifepoint, train theft is almost exclusively nonviolent nowadays.
—Malia Wollan, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2024
In the past year, there have been thefts stretching from Los Angeles, where several people were robbed of thousands of dollars through Venmo at knifepoint, to Orlando, where a woman had thousands drained from her Venmo after a child asked to use her phone, the DA said.
—Jessica Hornig, ABC News, 29 Jan. 2024
In the past year, there have been thefts stretching from Los Angeles, where several people were robbed of thousands of dollars through Venmo at knifepoint, to Orlando, where a woman had thousands drained from her Venmo after a child asked to use her phone.
—Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 23 Jan. 2024
That police account describes a male as attempting to carjack a vehicle nearby before fleeing and stealing a car at knifepoint from a woman at a McDonalds.
—Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2023
Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 6 Apr. 2024
Assistant police Chief Ed DeCastro said officers responded to an armed robbery call at a business and found that a woman had gone to medical urgent care for treatment after a man attempted to take the woman's car at gun- and knifepoint.
—Shelby Slade, The Arizona Republic, 21 Feb. 2024
Out on parole two years later, Misch allegedly entered another neighbor’s home wearing nothing but a jacket and held a mom and her two kids at knifepoint.
—Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 14 Feb. 2024
In the season 13 finale, Stephanie’s held at knifepoint by an unhinged patient, and ends up setting him on fire in order to save herself and the little girl in her company.
—TIME, 14 Mar. 2024
While truckers are sometimes hijacked at gun- or knifepoint, train theft is almost exclusively nonviolent nowadays.
—Malia Wollan, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2024
In the past year, there have been thefts stretching from Los Angeles, where several people were robbed of thousands of dollars through Venmo at knifepoint, to Orlando, where a woman had thousands drained from her Venmo after a child asked to use her phone, the DA said.
—Jessica Hornig, ABC News, 29 Jan. 2024
In the past year, there have been thefts stretching from Los Angeles, where several people were robbed of thousands of dollars through Venmo at knifepoint, to Orlando, where a woman had thousands drained from her Venmo after a child asked to use her phone.
—Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 23 Jan. 2024
That police account describes a male as attempting to carjack a vehicle nearby before fleeing and stealing a car at knifepoint from a woman at a McDonalds.
—Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2023
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“Knifepoint.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/knifepoint. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.
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