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- knife + -like (Wiktionary)
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“Police confiscated a "knifelike" weapon, but would not give more details about it.”
“He paused, his usual carefree gaze cutting with knifelike precision.”
“He dodged their knifelike claws, swinging his fists to send them flying.”
“They were awakened by the first, knifelike rays of the sun as it pierced the eastern sky.”
“People with this condition will experience sharp, knifelike pain and numbness.”
“That's also why the look of the aerodynamic could come to vary so widely, from Dubonnet's 1937 biomorphs to the suppository sweep of a 1957 Jaguar to the knifelike edges of a hand-built 1959 Corvette Sting Ray.”
The Washington Post: 'The Allure of the Automobile' at Atlanta's High Museum by Blake Gopnik
“One was for the theft of a teacher's cellphone and another was because a student brought a knifelike weapon to class.”
The Washington Post: At Peace Parade in Mount Rainier, students line up to celebrate staying in line
“Instead of the lancing sensation of knifelike fangs, she felt a powerful pulse of hot, foul breath against her neck scales.”
“And with the scars I had on my side where a possessed man had shoved knifelike fingers into my ribs last August, and the long, white-pink mark where a voodoo God had split my arm open in the spring, I looked pretty beat-up.”
“I was feeling a constant cramping, burning, and knifelike sensation in my stomach.”
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