Sentence examples for knife handed from inspiring English sources

Four women would hold down the arms and legs of each girl, usually ages 5 to 7. For years, Mrs. Boiro said, she used a knife handed down through generations of cutters in her family until it became "too dull to even cut okra".

While it certainly doesn't have the highest instance of FGM/C cases -- 98percentt of women of in Somalia have been cut, for example -- the U.N. still considers it to have a "moderately high prevalence of cases". Former circumciser Mariam Coulibaly displays the tools of her trade, a knife handed down to her by her mother and herbs to heal the wounds, at her home in Salemata, southeastern Senegal.

Today, I sliced my breakfast avocado with a knife hand-forged in the Japanese style by young artisan knife-makers in London.

One of them, Bianca, picks up an orange and a knife, hands them to her mother, and asks her to peel the fruit.

Knife hand thrust!

Be sure the tail is lying flat on the cutting board and cut through it, pushing on the back of the knife with your free hand as well as pressing down with the knife hand.

She has a callus in the palm of her knife hand, nicks on her fingers and fading burn marks on her wrists.

A palm-down knife hand works very well for this.

The next easiest break after the downward palm strike is probably the side knife hand.

This stance works well with Shuto (Knife Hand), and most other blocks.

Use your free hand to pull the breast meat away from the bone as you cut with your knife hand.