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Example sentences for "small knife"

  • This being removed by a small knife, the brush, with a little more fresh glue, may be passed over the surfaces again, and the fitting this time should be perfect.

  • No, sir, I tapped it about, and found some hollow spaces that would admit my small knife; the plaster had not been cut evenly, and then not pressed equally all over.

  • Case=, containing a small knife, small scissors, forceps and two needles =2.

  • One quart of each variety, to be shown on plate, not in box.

  • This one crop system could be followed for about two years, when it might be advisable to return to the two crop system if the weevils have disappeared.

  • Mr. Crosby: How would you keep those scions?

  • The men use their bolos to cut up the betel nut, but the women have a small knife [21] which also answers the purpose of a general utility implement corresponding to our scissors.

  • A small knife[15] is frequently employed as a razor, not only on the chin and upper lip but also for shaving the eyebrows.

  • Nearly every adult ManĂ³bo, who has not relinquished the use of the bow and arrow, with no other tool than his bolo and perhaps a small knife, can complete a bow and a bunch of arrows in a relatively short time.

  • Run a small knife or a skewer into the meat, to ascertain when properly done.

  • With a skewer or a small knife, or merely by pressing on it with the fingers, anyone can learn how to tell when done, after having roasted only two or three.

  • Pare tart, mellow apples--take out the cores with a small knife, and fill the holes with sugar.

  • If you do not like them very fiery, cut a small slit in them, and take the seeds out carefully with a small knife, so as not to mangle the pepper.

  • Pare small, tart apples, and take out the cores with a small knife--fill the cavity with a stick of cinnamon or mace.

  • Apples for preserving should be tart and mellow--pare them, and take out the cores with a small knife.

  • Flatten and cut a cross on the top with a small knife, brush with yolks of eggs, put on buttered pan and bake in oven.

  • Then moisten with egg, and with the tip of a small knife trace a ring on each patty about one-half inch from the edge.

  • To pare or cut off the surface of with a small knife; to cut or shape, as a piece of wood held in the hand, with a clasp knife or pocketknife.

  • Defn: To cut or shape a piece of wood with am small knife; to cut up a piece of wood with a knife.

  • To cut or shape a piece of wood with am small knife; to cut up a piece of wood with a knife.

  • A small knife with a thin, keen blade, -- used by surgeons, and in dissecting.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "small knife" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    dative case; honestly believe; make others; small book; small brass; small capitals; small caste; small circular; small figures; small fire; small flock; small lump; small matter; small ones; small plain; small room; small scale; small silver; small square; small system; small things; small time; small work; smaller scale; stood thus; when riding