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Tomic looks a little more encouraged during the next rally but he’s put in his place by a rapier-like backhand across court, and when he goes long on the next one it’s 30-15.

From The Guardian • Sep. 20, 2015

Tomic looks a little more encouraged during the next rally but he’s put in his place by a rapier-like backhand across court, and when he goes long on the next one it’s 30-15.

From The Guardian • Sep. 20, 2015

Is the Blues rapier-like attack nothing but a memory now?

From BBC • Jan. 24, 2011

More important, he is the anonymous author of the rapier-like "Notes & Comment" which leads off The New Yorker's famed "Talk of the Town," sometimes called the best column in Manhattan.

From Time Magazine Archive

All of them wore colored headbands, all carried short, rapier-like swords.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques