Sentence examples for table knife from inspiring English sources
noun
A type of knife used to cut cooked and prepared food, with a single moderately sharp edge.
"You can?" Listlessly, "What?" "Table knife, that's all.
Dakotah rasped the charcoal into the sink with a table knife.
Sprinkle over 3 tbs cold water and stir in with a table knife until the mixture binds together.
One night when he was dining at Chasen's, an actor cut off his tie with a table knife.
Mr. Hunter smoothed the icing on top of the cake with a table knife, and stepped back and looked at it.
This is the woman who has made art out of the tarnish inside a suit of Henry VIII's armour, Darwin's sextant and Dickens's table knife.
What it shows is disassociation, longueur, possibly impasse; and yet it's a feat of brinkmanship, from the blade about to fall off the table – knife-edge – to the queer triangulation of distanced figures, the burning black of the boy's jacket to the pale linen of his leg, bending out into our space – "breaking the wall" of the painting, as Zola put it.
Table knives of the 18th century frequently had pistol-shaped handles and curved blades like those of scimitars.
Martensitic stainless steels, widely used for both table knives and trade knives, contain from 12 to 18 percent chromium, imparting corrosion resistance, and from 0.12 to 1 percent carbon, permitting a great degree of hardening by heat treatment.
But if, say, four games pass without a win then not only is valuable ground ceded in the table, knives in certain quarters will already be sharpening for the new manager.
Around the table, knives and forks at the ready, were Mr. Abraham; the actresses DINA MERRILL and LISA EICHHORN; the composer and orchestrator SID RAMIN, who won an Oscar for "West Side Story" in 1961; and the author ROBERT OSBORNE.
