How to Use knife in a Sentence

knife

1 of 2 noun

• He pulled a knife on me and threatened to stab me with it.
• Each dinner guest gets two forks, a knife, and a spoon.
• With a knife stabbed right through it.
  — Rachel McRady, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025
• Take that dirty kitchen knife to the sink.
  — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 16 Feb. 2026
• Paramedics found him with a knife wound to his chest.
  — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 16 Mar. 2026
• Paramedics found him with a knife wound to his chest.
  — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 5 May 2026
• Paramedics found him with a knife wound to his chest.
  — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 23 Jan. 2026
• Then use your knife and ruler to cut clean, crisp edges.
  — Melissa Epifano, The Spruce, 29 Jan. 2026
• Slice them out with a knife or tear the leaves away by hand.
  — Zoe Denenberg, Bon Appetit Magazine, 23 Apr. 2026
• The game was already on a knife edge.
  — Jack Lang, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2026
• One of the suspects picked up a knife.
  — Megan Cassidy, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Apr. 2026
• The phone call that brought the news was like a knife in my heart.
  — Bruce M. Beehler, Washington Post, 26 May 2026
• Use a knife to cut the plant in quarters.
  — Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 Mar. 2026
• Laura meets her with a knife by the pool.
  — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025
• The knife had punctured his lung.
  — Mattha Busby, Rolling Stone, 16 Jan. 2026
• Joan Smalls's straight, blunt lob cuts like a knife.
  — Krista Carter, InStyle, 17 Feb. 2026
• Gaff pulled a hunting knife out of his boot.
  — Nina Giraldo, CNN Money, 10 May 2026
• The man then turned the knife on himself.
  — Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2025
• The tip of the knife blade was broken off.
  — Adrienne Davis, jsonline.com, 3 Feb. 2026
• The person then stabs it with a long knife.
  — Claudia Lauer, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2025
• Use a sharp knife to cut them into squares.
  — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 May 2026
• Flat front panel and knife pleats around the back.
  — Molly Guthrey, Twin Cities, 22 Mar. 2026
• Even the wrong type of knife can affect your meal.
  — Jessica Safavimehr, Southern Living, 28 Apr. 2026
• Don’t let your knives clang around in storage.
  — Emily Johnson, Bon Appetit Magazine, 18 Mar. 2026
• Pack your knives and go… straight to next season.
  — Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 11 May 2026
• Louis snatched his knife from his belt and went under.
  — Dolores Brown, Outdoor Life, 17 June 2026
• Police said the man stopped but did not drop the knife.
  — Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 31 Aug. 2025
• The police said a kitchen knife was found at the scene.
  — CBS News, 9 June 2026
• And not all knives don’t come with the same blade angle.
  — Jesse Raub, Bon Appetit Magazine, 30 Mar. 2026
• Bill dropped his knife, grabbed his rifle and jumped back.
  — Marguerite Reiss, Outdoor Life, 9 Oct. 2025

knife

2 of 2 verb

• He died after being knifed in the chest.
• Banks got to speaking about his fear of planes and the many ways that’s knifed at his draft process.
  — Noah White, Miami Herald, 28 Mar. 2026
• Bill knifed off Duane’s undershirt and bound the wound.
  — Marguerite Reiss, Outdoor Life, 9 Oct. 2025
• Five plays later, Ohio scored when Otis knifed over from one-yard out.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 27 Nov. 2019
• The sun was out, knifing through the water in shimmering bands.
  — David Amsden, Travel + Leisure, 9 Mar. 2026
• The wind knifed through the cracks in the houses, rattling coffee cups laid out on kitchen tables.
  — Skip Hollandsworth, Esquire, 5 Apr. 2016
• These days, just knifing through the clutter is surely worth something.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 9 Sep. 2019
• This is ominous—Zecchini goes still as a corpse and knifes downward in the dark.
  — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 19 July 2023
• However, shark fins knifed the vodka-clear water, and we were ordered back to shore.
  — Anne Calcagno, chicagotribune.com, 22 Dec. 2017
• Unless the john is a jumpy type, in which case the girls may be required to slug, bite or knife him and leave the remains on the street.
  — Gail Sheehy, Daily Intelligencer, 9 Sep. 2017
• Replays showed Uwazurike had a hand on the long snapper, and Tillman knifed in for the block.
  — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 15 Sep. 2025
• What was evident to the paramedics was that Na’or had been knifed three times, from behind his shoulder.
  — Geraldine Brooks, The New Yorker, 27 May 2017
• Three men with fake suicide vests began to knife people on a Saturday night out.
  — Thomas Penny, Bloomberg.com, 4 June 2017
• But there’s a difference between dancing on the edge and knifing somebody in the back.
  — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 28 Feb. 2026
• Then the Browns knifed that lead to 10-9 with Kelly's first touchdown.
  — Rich Exner, cleveland, 3 Dec. 2019
• Tyrann Mathieu knifed past Jones to hit Johnson in the backfield.
  — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 6 Nov. 2019
• That’s asking to be knifed or shot, not just knocked upside the head, as the local transit passenger was.
  — Julio Ojeda-Zapata, Twin Cities, 23 May 2017
• Lava from Kilauea has also downed power lines and knifed across highways.
  — Sophia Yan and Malcolm Ritter, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 June 2018
• Police say Momeni knifed Lee in the ribs in the early hours of April 4.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 14 Apr. 2023
• Adams is outstanding at attacking his run fits and knifing his way into the backfield to make plays as a blitzer.
  — John Owning, Dallas News, 27 Jan. 2020
• Watson knifed into the end zone with his first NFL pass reception.
  — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 2 Dec. 2019
• Liquid manure in tanks under hog or cattle confinement buildings is pumped to field where it is knifed into the soil.
  — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 15 Mar. 2026
• Within seconds, several marshals in green jackets (not those green jackets) knifed through the gallery.
  — Teddy Greenstein, chicagotribune.com, 5 Apr. 2018
• Guenter Parche, 38, reaches over a courtside railing and knifes Seles in the back.
  — Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2026
• Hagans knifed through the lane all evening long, drawing an extra defender and deftly finding shooters and dunkers alike.
  — Hayes Gardner, The Courier-Journal, 2 Dec. 2019
• One simulation found that the shadows of the highest towers may knife a mile into the park on the winter solstice.
  — Catherine Cusick, Longreads, 21 June 2018
• Mims got caught trying to go horizontal on the first return of the day but knifed up the field there and had a good return out to the 38.
  — Joe Nguyen, Denver Post, 12 Oct. 2025
• One man, 75, was stabbed in the neck and another, 77, was knifed in the back, authorities said.
  — NBC News, 9 July 2019
• Less than a minute later, Robinson knifed through the key, lofting in the layup to put Golden State up nine points.
  — Connor Letourneau, SFChronicle.com, 3 Feb. 2020
• Head’s team knifed its way to a championship and promotion to the Gori Super League.
  — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 20 July 2023