Synonyms of knives

knives

noun

plural of knife

as in cutters

an instrument with a metal length that has a sharp edge for cutting

be careful in using the knife to split open the cardboard box

Synonyms & Similar Words

• cutters
• blades
• daggers
• swords
• bayonets
• shivs
• shanks
• cleavers
• pocketknives
• machetes
• steels
• cutlasses
• switchblades
• stilettos
• dirks
• poniards
• bolos
• sabers
• scalpels
• bodkins
• rapiers
• hacks
• sheath knives
• stylets
• yataghans
• switch knives
• bowie knifes
• jackknives

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of knives

Witnesses told South Korean media that the attacker appeared to have knives tied to both hands and stabbed people in different parts of the mall while moving up and down the floors on an escalator. — ABC News, 13 Oct. 2026

Great Wolf Lodge confirmed the knives weren't kept by the resort. — Tom Ignudo, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026

On March 24, 2016, Abdel Fattah al-Sharif and another Palestinian armed with knives attacked an Israeli soldier in Hebron, in the occupied West Bank. — Tamir Sorek, The Conversation, 12 Oct. 2026

According to testimony, Pham and Salerno moved Collins into the bathroom after Lavery hit her, but Lavery followed and stabbed her over and over, leaving blood on the tiles, walls and shower curtain — which had images of knives on it. — Julia Coin, Charlotte Observer, 9 Oct. 2026

Nickelodeon may have canceled its stop-motion animated The Tiny Chef Show last year, but Chef hasn’t hung up his tiny knives. — Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2026

Here droogs and tollchocks, there giro-drops and plookie radges—the jargon reached me like a Moloko plus with knives. — Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2026

The satirical remarks drew criticism after a man later breached security at the Washington Hilton event while armed with a shotgun, handgun and several knives. — Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026

Cops quickly found Cisneros holding two kitchen knives and surrounded her. — Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 3 Oct. 2026