as in bayonets
a sharp pointed knife that is used as a weapon
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Recent Examples of daggers
Most of the crowd is talking quietly among themselves, oblivious to Trevor Yeakley’s gaze, except for two men staring daggers right back at him.
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Ben Travers, IndieWire, 13 Feb. 2026
Sam Hauser hit three of those six daggers early in the fourth and Derrick White hit two.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 20 Dec. 2025
Played with underdog vulnerability by the British actor, Father Jud opens his arms to everyone and gets daggers in return.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 11 Dec. 2025
This shop, which features striking geometric styles, is attached to a museum that holds more than 2,500 objects—textiles, coins, daggers, and jewelry—collected by the owners’ late father.
—Gayatri Shah, Travel + Leisure, 16 Sep. 2025
There are the clever visual gags allowed by animation, like characters who quite literally shoot daggers at one another while locked in a glaring match; there are many jokes at the imperious, overconfident Marioneta’s expense.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 17 Aug. 2025
Only swords, axes, and daggers are permitted.
—Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Meanwhile, rogues’ daggers deal heavy damage when ambushing foes with a flurry of stamina-draining attacks.
—Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 6 Aug. 2025
Ben Travers, IndieWire, 13 Feb. 2026
Sam Hauser hit three of those six daggers early in the fourth and Derrick White hit two.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 20 Dec. 2025
Played with underdog vulnerability by the British actor, Father Jud opens his arms to everyone and gets daggers in return.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 11 Dec. 2025
This shop, which features striking geometric styles, is attached to a museum that holds more than 2,500 objects—textiles, coins, daggers, and jewelry—collected by the owners’ late father.
—Gayatri Shah, Travel + Leisure, 16 Sep. 2025
There are the clever visual gags allowed by animation, like characters who quite literally shoot daggers at one another while locked in a glaring match; there are many jokes at the imperious, overconfident Marioneta’s expense.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 17 Aug. 2025
Only swords, axes, and daggers are permitted.
—Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Meanwhile, rogues’ daggers deal heavy damage when ambushing foes with a flurry of stamina-draining attacks.
—Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 6 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for daggers
Noun
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Audiences are immersed in the horrors of the war, which was fought eyeball to eyeball by landless men wielding muskets, unreliable rifles and terrifying bayonets.—
Aramide Tinubu,
Variety,
16 Nov. 2025
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Soldiers were known to use bayonets, rocks, and even gunfire to get their cans open.—
Popular Science Team,
Popular Science,
28 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Cable-cutters can tune into the performance through a variety of Live TV streamers with access to NBC such as DirecTV, Hulu + Live TV and Sling TV (in select markets).—
Anna Tingley,
Variety,
8 Feb. 2026
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Multiple aircraft, cutters and small boats searched 1,047 square miles over 24 hours, finding debris near the location where the EPIRB was activated, along with one body and an unoccupied life raft that had been deployed.—
Alexandra Koch,
FOXNews.com,
4 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Little would the playwright have imagined that something yet to be invented called social media would one day be more powerful than swords, bullets and bombs.—
Sandeep Gopalan,
Baltimore Sun,
3 Feb. 2026
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Fire in all its forms, literal and figurative and symbolic—the consuming ardor of desire, the irreversible incinerations of loss, the flaming swords of Genesis—is the central subject of Kelly Hoffer’s second collection Fire Series.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 Feb. 2026
Noun
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German knives are heavier in the hand, with thick blades and sturdy handles.—
Wilder Davies,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
17 Feb. 2026
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Constructed with sharp, stainless steel blades, the scissors seamlessly cut through meat, vegetables, pizza, twine, flowers, and much more.—
Alicia Geigel,
Southern Living,
17 Feb. 2026
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