Sentence examples for like a shiv from inspiring English sources
Even if a line is poorly received, he pockets it like a shiv.
And sure enough, he'd stabbed me with – like a shiv!" He laughs disbelievingly.
A review of a book of mine, mostly favorable, but one sentence was like a shiv between the ribs, and that is the sentence I remember.
He's too consciously zany; he's funny at times (and he uses a Groucho turn of phrase like a shiv), but he's heavy-spirited and cunning, in the Anthony Newley manner.
Exhibit A: Shiv Kapur, who has birdied the first three holes to move to -3.
Black Boy finds Marie with her lover and kills him with a shiv.
The boys tooled me up with a shiv.
But Short was able to ward off the assailants with a shiv made out of ceramic that he kept in his sock for situations like this.
Yes, I totally agree if you see them with a shiv or a weird look in their eye.
The monkeys immunized with SHIV-TNF were partly protected against a pathogenic SHIV (SHIV-C2/1) challenge.
Berger, in public addresses, deploys the line like a narrative shiv: it's the moment when a lion of the science announces the death of discovery, and the field desperately needs salvation.
