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Recent Examples of sheath knife
Keep folding knives closed or sheath knives when not in use.
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Popular Science, 14 Apr. 2020
Popular Science, 14 Apr. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sheath knife
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When the Republican Charles Sumner was struck down by a Southerner on the Senate floor, Raymond’s paper called for armed resistance by pistol, bludgeon, and bowie knife, if necessary.—
Matthew Karp,
Harpers Magazine,
29 Apr. 2025
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The speaker that February night was Cassius Marcellus Clay, a bold and brawling Kentucky abolitionist, equally skilled with a stump speech and a bowie knife.—
Jon Grinspan,
Smithsonian Magazine,
1 Apr. 2024
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Months earlier, a pair of pedestrians found a 2,500-year-old dagger on a Polish beach, on the coast of the Baltic Sea.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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The cancelation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert emerged last week like a dagger through the heart of late-night.—
Peter White,
Deadline,
21 July 2025
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In the artwork, a militiaman cradles the dying revolutionary, holding out his hand to stop a British soldier from stabbing Warren with a bayonet.—
Eliza McGraw,
Smithsonian Magazine,
17 June 2025
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Lots of people died fighting for this in – in just horrific struggles when the main form of killing was a bayonet.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
6 July 2025
Noun
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Jacob allegedly called his father during the confrontation and told him his husband had been preventing him from leaving the apartment and threatening him with a knife, per the outlet.—
Becca Longmire,
People.com,
5 Aug. 2025
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At a news conference last month, Waters also highlighted images of a knife in McNeil’s car.—
Jeff Martin,
Sun Sentinel,
4 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Inside his bag was a homemade explosive device, binoculars, a pocketknife and a torch lighter.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
23 July 2025
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Officers also recovered 11 orange pills believed to be Adderall and a pocketknife from Tracy’s pocket.—
Rick Sobey,
Boston Herald,
23 June 2025
Noun
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Zakrzewski then called to each of his children separately to come brush their teeth before attacking them each with the machete.—
Amanda Lee Myers,
USA Today,
1 Aug. 2025
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Following the cast reveal for the new season of the ITV2 series, it was confirmed that Kyle Ashman would not enter the villa after being a suspect in a machete attack incident.—
Armando Tinoco,
Deadline,
4 June 2025
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Tyla completed her look with strappy, peep-toe stilettos and accessorized with minimal jewelry.—
Julia Teti,
Footwear News,
8 Aug. 2025
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In addition to being still, people have also done the pose in stilettos while surfing, doing squats and drinking.—
Caroline Blair,
People.com,
6 Aug. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Sheath knife.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sheath%20knife. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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