Sentence examples for two-edged knife from inspiring English sources

He was astonished to find that this natural rock shelf held an offering of a human skull, pottery, the skull of a dog, deer bones, and a two-edged knife probably used for sacrifices, all neatly placed there centuries earlier.

The Seax of Beagnoth (also known as the Thames scramasax) is a 10th-century Anglo-Saxon seax (single-edged knife).

Mr. Ali said in the early 1960s about her singing: "I found that her voice was like a sharp-edged knife.

"She was repeatedly stabbed – 26 times in all – with a sharp-edged knife, causing four-inch wounds.

As Wilson tells the story, the Cardinal became so agitated one night, observing a dinner guest pick his teeth with the double-edged knife still in use, that he ordered blunt knives for his household.

The county council's logo is three seaxes, a single-edged knife of the Anglo-Saxons, in red on a white background.

"Any double-edged knife that can penetrate a bulletproof vest seems like a weapon made to kill.

"The same, single-edged knife could have caused the injuries on both decedents," Dr. Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran testified.

As her parents slept mere feet away, she was stabbed a dozen times with a double-edged knife.

Sathyavagiswaran added that a double-edged knife could have caused some of the wounds, but he stressed that he saw no wounds that a single-edged weapon — about 6 inches long and 3/4 of an inch wide — could have caused.

Note that hold will not allow for a powerful throw; if you are just learning to use a double-edged knife, you may have better luck with the hammer grip.