dinner knife
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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A small boy appears, jimmies the flaps off with a dinner knife and instructs the man in how to make a paper airplane.
From New York Times • Oct. 18, 2011
Sometimes a weapon is just a dinner knife.
From Time • Mar. 13, 2011
As he smeared over the word with a dinner knife, Palmer thought about it.
From "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli
We lost the spirit-lamp and the best dinner knife, and, what was far more precious to me, the most companionable of sticks—one that had walked with me hundreds of miles.
From Two Summers in Guyenne by Barker, Edward Harrison
The poker did a part, the steel to sharpen the dinner knife did another part!”
From World's End A Story in Three Books by Jefferies, Richard
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