knife-shaped

• “If I'm reading that correctly, it means that someone who may or may not be Mario Cipollini uses olive oil to style his hair with a knife-shaped comb, wrestles scantily-clad ladies in it, and pours it all over his pasta, but does not use it for "male enhancement.”

  Enhanced Performance: Oiling the Squeaky Wheel

• “The Andorian stood facing him, the metallic blue gleam of a small, knife-shaped stinger gun clutched in one hand.”

  Simon & Schuster: MILLENNIUM

• “I took a score of dives to scout out Ydris, from the empty and arid poles where ice winds whistled across sea ice sculpted into knife-shaped dunes to the tropical jungles where each instant held battles between beasts so savage that even the Ydrisians avoided their own equator -- except for the outcasts.”

  Timegod's World

• “The warrior loomed over him; in his right hand there was a knife-shaped object that glittered blackly in the moonlight.”

  Burning Water

• “This may have its sides parallel or tapering, to make a knife-shaped file.”

  Practical Mechanics for Boys

• “Small knife-shaped stick for pounding down the woof of belts.”

  Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections Obtained from the Pueblos of Zuñi, New Mexico, and Wolpi, Arizona, in 1881 Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 511-594

• “They argued that the sample found on the knife blade could not be attributed to Miss Kercher with any certainty, and pointed out that the weapon did not match a bloody, knife-shaped smear on Miss Kercher's bedclothes, nor did it match two of the three wounds to her neck.”

  Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph

• “The alleged murder weapon, for instance, a knife found in the kitchen of Amanda's boyfriend, did not match a knife-shaped bloodstain on Kercher's bed, and the sample of the two women's DNA on it was so small that some say most judges would not consider it admissible evidence.”

  Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Local News

• “Organizers are in the process of erecting 18 knife-shaped concrete columns around the city to memorialize her murder, one for each time she was stabbed.”

  NYT > Home Page

• “Of the 23 coins seized, Customs reported that three were knife-shaped, seven were from Cyprus and 12 from China.”

  Courthouse News Service

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