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knife thrust

n. a thrusting blow with a knife or other sharp pointed instrument; "one strong stab to the heart killed him" [syn: stab, thrust]

Usage examples of "knife thrust".

The other four had seemed the same, killed with a single knife thrust, their purses emptied, but however dangerous the streets at night, coincidence hardly seemed credible.

For a moment I panicked, slithering and jerking to avoid the certain knife thrust.

This was something else: poison in the dark, a knife thrust to the soul.

It was more intimate than a kiss and deeper than a knife thrust, beyond a Skill-link and beyond sexual coupling, even beyond my Wit-bond with Nighteyes.

Was the murderer inside the cabin with Ingraham, or was he killed by a knife thrust through an open window?

Had he been alone, that would have been the end of him, but even as one of the beasts lunged toward his leg, Hesseth met it head-on with a knife thrust that cut it open along the side of its neck, from the bottom of its jaw to the artery that coursed deep inside its flesh.

But once the wizard is down, you are out of position for the knife thrust.