sheath knife

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Recent Examples of sheath knife Keep folding knives closed or sheath knives when not in use. Popular Science, 14 Apr. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sheath knife
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Maye suffered six sacks and committed three turnovers, including a fourth-quarter interception that linebacker Uchenna Nwosu returned 44 yards for a dagger touchdown.
    Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Singh, who would be our local guide, always wore the five traits of a pious Sikh man — uncut hair (symbolizing strength and holiness and topped by the identifying turban), a steel bracelet, wooden comb, sheathed dagger and a baggy undergarment dating back to the Sikhs’ warrior days on horses.
    Norma Meyer, Oc Register, 4 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Forty-five degree angle with your bayonet, go through the soil, find, find, find, dink dink.
    Tracy Smith, CBS News, 18 Jan. 2026
  • The law prohibits the sale and distribution of screw-base and bayonet-base compact fluorescent lamps.
    Center Square, The Washington Examiner, 1 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Becoming a master of quadruple jumps that no one else can land, rising with all the ease of a young Michael Jordan—before landing on a pair of butcher knives, on ice.
    Stephanie Bai, The Atlantic, 8 Feb. 2026
  • The salesperson in the custom knife shop with a $1,200 pizza cutter on offer — albeit the most beautiful pizza cutter I, personally, have ever seen — said that more customers had started to trickle in now that the fervor on Main Street had died down and the roads were clearer.
    Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 7 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Police said Gregory then pulled out a pocketknife, threatened to stab the juvenile and began stealing a PlayStation console and controllers.
    Garrett Behanna, CBS News, 18 Jan. 2026
  • Investigators said Moore approached Loncharich in a store aisle and stabbed her in the back with a pocketknife.
    Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 1 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The suspect continued to walk toward an officer with the machete, and the officer fired his weapon.
    Kyle Werner, Des Moines Register, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Security cameras showed the suspect swinging the machete and breaking the glass front door.
    Matthew Rodriguez, CBS News, 21 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Christian Louboutin released their Pigalle stiletto in the fall 2004 collection.
    Karla Rodriguez, Footwear News, 6 Feb. 2026
  • The city has a glam reputation, but no one is actually wearing toothpick-thin stilettos like on Emily in Paris, especially in the winter.
    Lane Nieset, Travel + Leisure, 31 Jan. 2026

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“Sheath knife.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sheath%20knife. Accessed 13 Feb. 2026.

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