Sentence examples for call a knife from inspiring English sources

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All the same, Hughes as the Crocodile Dundee of art criticism is too good a parallel to reject: burly ocker from the outback, tinny in left hand, confronted by New York aesthete armed with stiletto, reaches with his right hand for his own massive bush knife, commenting slyly to his terrified assailant: "Now that's what I call a knife".

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The first tool is called a knife.

Wenger already has an alternative for sale, called a knife in a can.

As I noted in an essay for the magazine called "A Knife in the Back," the procedure left me in more pain than before and limited my functioning for years.

This opened the heart of the Pine Bush and the western section of the city to development and was called "a knife through the heart of the Pine Bush".

But some anti-abortion campaigners followed the filibuster too, along with the politically minded who simply enjoyed watching what The Dallas Morning News called a "knife-fight within the confines of Robert's Rules of Order".

High details that in this realm Hel has "great Mansions" with extremely high walls and immense gates, a hall called Éljúðnir, a dish called "Hunger," a knife called "Famine," the servant Ganglati (Old Norse "lazy walker" ), the serving-maid Ganglöt (also "lazy walker" ), the entrance threshold "Stumbling-block," the bed "Sick-bed," and the curtains "Gleaming-bale".

He wrote to his friend William Watson, "Now by what I shall tell you of them it appears to me much more poor in language to call them planets than if we were to call a rasor a knife, a cleaver, a hatchet, etc... .. Herschel coined the term, 'asteroids' from the Greek meaning, 'little stars.' They certainly looked like little stars in his telescope and by the mid-1800s, the name stuck.

A chef's knife, also called a French knife -- an elongated, triangular blade heavier at the spine and tapering to a mean, thin edge -- is still favored by professionals.

This type of knife is often called a paring knife, because of their use in this task.

Like many of his colleagues, Mr. Verno chiefly uses a very narrow, thin and flexible knife with a curved tip, sometimes called a Thai knife.

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