stiletto

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Recent Examples of stiletto Thompson was pretty brave for weaving his fingers with Meg's, considering how long and sharp her stiletto manicure is. Marci Robin, Allure, 17 July 2025 July 13, 2025: Megan Thee Stallion shares more photos with her pink stiletto nails and curly hair look. Glamour, 13 July 2025 Meanwhile, Wednesday saw Kardashian, a Balenciaga brand ambassador, dressed in a white latex Balenciaga dress with matching boot stilettos. Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 9 July 2025 Keke Palmer stepped out last month in Midtown Manhattan in mirrored gold stilettos with a vintage Versace mini, while Sabrina Carpenter made headlines in six-inch Christian Louboutins at a pre–Met Gala cocktail. Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 6 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for stiletto
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stiletto
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Jackson said Burgin threatened her with a handgun and also has a rifle and a switchblade, the filing says.
    Christie D’Zurilla, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2025
  • The agency shares that knives of any length, including switchblades, are not permitted on board aircraft and through TSA checkpoints.
    Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 8 May 2025
Noun
  • Made In brought the chef knives, crafted in France with denim knife handles, and backed by chefs Daily and Greg Ryan, founders of Bells Restaurant in Los Alamos, CA.
    Pamela N. Danziger, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2025
  • View gallery - 14 images With retail prices starting under 20 bucks, and a sleek, simple combination of wood handle, hard steel blade and no-fuss twisting ring locks, Opinel knives are one of the true ageless classics of the folding knife market.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 16 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Inside his bag was a homemade explosive device, binoculars, a pocketknife and a torch lighter.
    Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 23 July 2025
  • 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
  • The workers blamed Landi — who was still in charge — for their troubles, and an image of Landi posing, pirate-style, with a cartoon-villain expression and a cutlass between his teeth became a symbol for Eutelia’s misdeeds.
    Atossa Araxia Abrahamian Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
  • The ultimate prop was the pirate flag, which could be decorated with a skull and crossbones (as in the classic Jolly Roger design), bleeding hearts, hourglasses, spears, cutlasses and skeletons.
    Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2024
Noun
  • The bodkins were helpful tools that could double as hairpins.
    Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Icke also occasionally cues up some Bob Dylan songs, chosen for their on-the-bodkin lyrics.
    Helen Shaw, Vulture, 30 June 2022

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“Stiletto.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stiletto. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.

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