knife-point

British  

noun

1. the tip of a knife blade

2. under threat of being stabbed

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Example Sentences

Benedikt Roezl, one of the more colorful figures described in the exhibition, blazed a solitary trail and refused to carry a firearm, even after being robbed at gun- or knife-point 17 times.

From New York Times • Feb. 25, 2016

It was part of Hitchcock's provocative primness that, after this meticulous outrage, he declared with wide eyes and wider vowels that you couldn't actually see a knife-point piercing flesh.

From The Guardian • Oct. 22, 2010

Paula's eyes, keen as a knife-point, were upon the V. A. D.'s face.

From The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land by Connor, Ralph

"Sometimes," he remarked, "when ye can't find a stone, a Pine knot will do—ye kin make the socket-hole with a knife-point."

From Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned by Seton, Ernest Thompson

It was a difficult task, or would have been so to me, as he had to bore holes in the animal's hide with his knife-point, but it seemed quite easy to him.

From The Purple Land by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)