Sentence examples for pointed knife from inspiring English sources

Lay the kidney down on the table and nick the skin with a small, pointed knife.

5. Using a sharp pointed knife, carefully slice baklava into 2-inch-thick diagonal strips.

Kill the lobsters by piercing the head with a large pointed knife, then place them in the pan.

With a pointed knife, cut the contents into 6 wedges through the center, and run the knife round the edges of the dish.

Test the apples with a thin pointed knife through the central hole in the pastry: when it goes through them easily, they are done.

With wood pick or pointed knife, pull the snail meat from the shell.

In the kitchen, we need short pointed knives to fillet fish or pierce meat, but we rarely use the points of longer knives.

It might be that an agreed pricing differential – say increasing the price of long pointed knives by £5, in comparison with rounded knives – would reduce the number of lethal knives sold.

Further legislation is always a last resort, but why can't manufacturers, shops, police, local authorities and the government act together to reduce the sale of long pointed knives and provide an alternative of knives with rounded ends?

In 1669, in a bid to cut down on violence, King Louis XIV of France decreed all pointed knives on the street or the dinner table illegal, and ordered all knife points ground down.

Make slashes 1-2cm deep all over the lamb leg with a sharp-pointed knife.