Sentence examples for flat of the blade from inspiring English sources

But he struck it with the flat of the blade and it broke.

(Some relatives say the cousin meant only to slap at him with the flat of the blade).

Crush the nuts coarsely with the flat of the blade of a large cook's knife, and cut or crumble the bacon into pieces.

The fragrant bulb surrenders willingly to a knife blade - just place the flat of the blade on top of the clove and thump it gently with the heel of the hand to loosen the husk for easy peeling.

Then, we employ Finite Element simulations of crack growth during macroscopic scratch tests to assess the influence of the blade back-rake angle, the friction coefficient between the blade and the material and the wear flat of the blade on the scratching forces, thus testing the robustness of our Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanics scratch model.

Try crushing the garlic with the flat of the blade after cutting off the end.

Keep the flat of the blades parallel to the cat's skin, and cautiously snip the hair just above the level of the skin.

The officer, who, was hit with only the flat side of the blade, shot the man three times as the vagrant stood over him with the machete raised for another blow, the police said.

The sabre has the edge, literally, on the épée and the foil; hits from those are administered with the point, whereas the sabre-rattler can score with a slice of her cutting edge or the flat back of the blade.

He then took a machete from a pot containing sweet potatoes, rice and chicken, she said, and started tapping her on the head with the flat side of the blade.

Specimens prepared from the concave part of the turbine blade were found to be approximately four times stiffer than those taken from a flat part of the blade, indicating that the modulus of the TBC is strongly dependent on the microstructure of the YSZ coating.