It's easier to cut bread with a serrated knife. From LearnThat.org.
This would include leg irons, electro-shock stun belts and inherently painful devices such as serrated thumb-cuffs. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The extinct whales called Squalodon have tusk-like front teeth and molars which have the outline of a leaf with a coarsely "serrated" edge. From Wordnik.com. [More Science From an Easy Chair] Reference
The serrated knife makes a cool sound against the celery. From Wordnik.com. [Three Cigarette Stories.] Reference
Using a serrated knife, slice the cake in half horizontally. From Wordnik.com. [Agatha Christie gets death cake tribute from Jane Asher] Reference
Beside it, a tall needle of rock, serrated and sharp, shot up. From Wordnik.com. [My New Curate] Reference
In other parts of the line, the summits were sharply serrated. From Wordnik.com. [Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.] Reference
Past ages have seen me cleave continents into serrated portions. From Wordnik.com. [NATURAE] Reference
A mouth that split the head in two, rows of teeth, serrated and pointed. From Wordnik.com. [Deathworld] Reference
A knife made with the handle and serrated blade as one piece, all of metal. From Wordnik.com. [Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, No. 17] Reference
Flag: red with a white serrated band (eight white points) on the hoist side. From Wordnik.com. [The 1996 CIA Factbook] Reference
Bahrain: red with a white serrated band (eight white points) on the hoist side. From Wordnik.com. [The 2001 CIA World Factbook] Reference
Description: red with a white serrated band (eight white points) on the hoist side. From Wordnik.com. [The 1996 CIA Factbook] Reference
For so long it had been only the serrated edge of getting by from one day to the next. From Wordnik.com. [Confederates] Reference
Flag description: red with a white serrated band (eight white points) on the hoist side. From Wordnik.com. [The 1999 CIA Factbook] Reference
If the edges char a bit, scrape off the char with a light touch on a serrated steak knife. From Wordnik.com. [Meathead Goldwyn: Gooey Grilled Cheese on the Grill] Reference
Suddenly the lightning flared through the serrated gloom, and thunder reverberated over the heather. From Wordnik.com. [Border Ghost Stories] Reference
Then you trace your proposed route along the map with a serrated-edge wheel at the tip of the device. From Wordnik.com. [Travel Briefs] Reference
Make it eight inches long, add serrated, diamond-pointed teeth, and you have the man-killing vibroblade. From Wordnik.com. [Unwise Child] Reference
The jingle bell at the tip of his pointed toe mocked each serrated movement of his limb with a jaunty tinkle. From Wordnik.com. [Knell Quarternion] Reference
And while its intentions were subtle, the steak knife with its small serrated teeth was studded with potential. From Wordnik.com. [The Door] Reference
The Cathedral Dome, and red serrated hills, add a picturesque grace, with the purple mountains in the background. From Wordnik.com. [Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta] Reference
This, too, has its tale of exile, insignificant as it looks except for its sharply serrated outline, and a worldwide fame. From Wordnik.com. [Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.] Reference
The eyes are small; the nose is barely noticeable except for slit nostrils, and the lipless mouth has triangular, serrated teeth. From Wordnik.com. [Concordance A Terran Empire concordance] Reference
The tympanum is relieved by a sunk quatrefoil in a serrated circle, and so is the space under either of the two central sub-arches. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric] Reference
The knife should be without teeth or indentations, but nearly everywhere in Capis Province I have seen it with a slightly serrated edge. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
We lived in a house on the edge of the country, where the water slapped a coast that looked cut off from the ocean with a serrated knife. From Wordnik.com. [A Country of Husbands] Reference
"There's a picture for you, Elinor," said David, pointing to the beautiful serrated mass of the great buildings looming misty-blue against the gold. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Pat at School] Reference
The lower reaches of the Zhob and Kundar are hemmed in by rugged limestone walls, serrated and banded with deep clefts and gorges, a wilderness of stony desolation. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
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