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Recent Examples of switchbladeOne thing leads to another, and as is common with such hedonistic reunions among longtime buddies, somebody ends up with a switchblade in their neck.—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 31 Jan. 2025 Other Nixon advertisements showed images of urban riots, street crime and student protesters alongside pictures of rifles, switchblades and hypodermic needles.—Jonathan Zimmerman, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2025 At a preliminary hearing held last year, San Diego police Detective Christopher Murray testified that Logan admitted to committing the homicide with a switchblade.—City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Jan. 2025 Lumsden and his attorney only have theories about what could have happened: Could there have been a customs issue importing the switchblades?—Sam Tabachnik, The Denver Post, 9 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for switchblade
Leipold said in his postgame press conference that a pocketknife had been thrown during the game and had hit a member of Kansas’ staff.
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Jamie Barton,
CNN Money,
12 Oct. 2025
Investigators allegedly recovered evidence from Louisma's car, including a pocketknife with blood stains on it, machetes, a rope, a roll of duct tape, pink HeyDude shoes, and a cut up pink shirt with duct tape wrapped around it, CBS2 Iowa reports.
Hacking a path through dense jungle with a machete.
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Kit Bernardi,
USA Today,
14 Oct. 2025
Bohler is reportedly accused of approaching Rakeem Tayquon Young, 34, while Young was walking his dog, Chanel, and pulling out a machete while threatening to kill the animal.
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.
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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.
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Sean Kingsley,
Smithsonian Magazine,
15 May 2024
This includes openly carrying the famous Jim Bowie knife, as well as daggers, dirks, throwing knives, stilettos, poniards, swords, machetes and spears.
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