A narrow knifelike profile. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Verb (used without object) : The ship knifed through the heavy seas. From Dictionary.com.
Police confiscated a "knifelike" weapon, but would not give more details about it. From Wordnik.com. [post-gazette.com - News] Reference
The knifelike sensation in his gut made him frown. From Wordnik.com. [A Man Alone]
The dacra was a knifelike weapon carried by Sisters. From Wordnik.com. [Men Don't Leave Me] Reference
The hills grew steeper and the knifelike grass thicker. From Wordnik.com. [Mercadian Masques]
Her knifelike voice cut through the room, silencing everyone. From Wordnik.com. [City of Ashes] Reference
Beside another lamp was a knifelike object, carved out of bone. From Wordnik.com. [The Plains of Passage]
Maryse saw his look and her lips thinned into a knifelike line. From Wordnik.com. [City of Ashes] Reference
This means you have to file and sand their ends to a knifelike edge. From Wordnik.com. [The Home-Built Rod] Reference
The ridge turned pointed, until the two sides met in a knifelike cut. From Wordnik.com. [Harpy Thyme]
He looked at the wrinkled and shattered rock with its knifelike edges. From Wordnik.com. [The Lani People] Reference
People with this condition will experience sharp, knifelike pain and numbness. From Wordnik.com. [Workers Compensation: A Fallacy « Colleen Anderson] Reference
After a while she spoke, knifelike through the murmur of traffic and cleft warm air. From Wordnik.com. [Operation Luna]
When he leaped off the ground he could feel sharp, knifelike pains sticking into his stomach. From Wordnik.com. [Naked] Reference
It had powerful fanged jaws and its eight feet were armed with knifelike, disemboweling claws. From Wordnik.com. [Cat and Mouse] Reference
Raphel began pulling his robes on, covering the sharp knifelike script of his attainment marks. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
The 390-foot vessel, sheathed in white, had a knifelike hull and a three-story, bulbous watchtower. From Wordnik.com. [Smooth Sailing Gets Ugly] Reference
He heard a sound and, turning, saw Chiun behind him, delivering a knifelike chop to the last soldier. From Wordnik.com. [Date With Death]
Tariskatt dropped the distasteful rag and cleaned his knifelike claws fastidiously on a nearby boulder. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragons at War]
The shadow swung away, black wings knifelike against the sky, and another shriek emitted from its throat. From Wordnik.com. [The Elf Queen of Shannara]
Khisanth's crimson tongue slithered greedily over knifelike teeth as she remembered the way she had gorged. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Wing]
So that should hold you until I know if I can stop cutting Stilton with a piece of common, knifelike rubbish. From Wordnik.com. [Kenneth Hite's Journal] Reference
Its scales were metallic, a rather pretty green with iridescent highlights, and the tip of its tail was knifelike. From Wordnik.com. [Dragon on a Pedestal]
Undismayed, he followed the knifelike crest, until at last he found a narrow ravine that led downward at an angle. From Wordnik.com. [The Kinslayer Wars]
One was for the theft of a teacher's cellphone and another was because a student brought a knifelike weapon to class. From Wordnik.com. [At Peace Parade in Mount Rainier, students line up to celebrate staying in line] Reference
But the cat's real weapons were on its front legs: knifelike blades of bone projecting from the front, scintillatingly sharp. From Wordnik.com. [The Source of Magic]
That night in the dark room, in a knifelike voice, Wayne said, "If you could get rid of her by pulling a plug, would you pull it?". From Wordnik.com. [Beard] Reference
The fragment of moon that hung low in the sky threw enough light across the inlet to reveal the knifelike hull of a lurking submarine. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift Jr And His Jetmarine]
The boys exchanged looks of fear through their face masks as the knifelike hull and conning tower of the submarine loomed gray and ghostly. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung] Reference
The third bow of the afternoon creased his arms with lines of fire long before he finished, and left a knifelike pounding inside his skull. From Wordnik.com. [Fall of Angels]
Here she cached all of her treasure except a single knifelike sliver. From Wordnik.com. [Tarzan the Terrible] Reference
No one, it was evident, was prepared for the sudden knifelike menace of. From Wordnik.com. [Mountain Blood A Novel] Reference
It was furiously slit and slashed by the knifelike fire from the rifles. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Badge of Courage] Reference
Stiller is best when he stops mugging and lets his Jewish-caveman looks and his knifelike voice work for him. From Wordnik.com. [The New Yorker] Reference
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