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Recent Examples of stiletto
Kitten-heeled or stiletto-ed, red carpet step and repeating or traversing the city streets, Holmes has found a new, hard-working staple in the form of the thong sandal.
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Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
4 June 2026
Her memoir settles a few scores, generally with a stiletto rather than a hatchet.
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Susan Page,
USA Today,
29 May 2026
Clearly that price was steeper than today’s tallest stiletto, and undoubtedly even more painful to endure.
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Jeffrey Qingyang Wan,
Hartford Courant,
15 May 2026
De Palma unpacks one in the accompanying film, going so far as to speak into a stiletto like a telephone.
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Chris Gardner,
HollywoodReporter,
13 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for stiletto
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
4 June 2026
Her memoir settles a few scores, generally with a stiletto rather than a hatchet.
—
Susan Page,
USA Today,
29 May 2026
Clearly that price was steeper than today’s tallest stiletto, and undoubtedly even more painful to endure.
—
Jeffrey Qingyang Wan,
Hartford Courant,
15 May 2026
De Palma unpacks one in the accompanying film, going so far as to speak into a stiletto like a telephone.
—
Chris Gardner,
HollywoodReporter,
13 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for stiletto
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stiletto
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Messi delivers the dagger Despite thoroughly controlling most of the match, the result was still in doubt late in the second half as Argentina squandered a few opportunities to increase its lead.
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Failing to closely examine the word being wielded like a dagger by one’s own white mother is a shame and a disappointment.
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It’s been a quarter century since the mostly Canadian supergroup New Pornographers sprang from the florid imagination of Carl Newman, a pop savant with an angel’s voice and switchblade wit.
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Forrest removed the cap of one and found a switchblade.
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The knife went through it with ease, and the mix of sweet cinnamon and savory chicken just worked perfectly together.
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About 15 minutes before the police found the victims, a man flagged down a Lauderhill officer to report that someone armed with a knife tried to attack him, according to police.
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The Continental Army went into the battle with a two-to-one advantage in numbers, but when most of the American militia crumbled in the face of a British bayonet charge, Pumphrey's unit was outnumbered, Wise says.
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In all three cases, the light-saber-like lighting unit itself quickly attaches/detaches to and from a bayonet mount at the rear end of the main bracket.
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According to several social media posts on X, someone reportedly brandishing a machete was allegedly shot by an officer or officers.
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Shede Mao, 55, is accused in a criminal complaint and police affidavit of using a machete and dumbbells to slash and bludgeon the 49-year-old victim, whose name had not been formally released by the Santa Clara County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s Office as of Wednesday.
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Police allegedly found a pocketknife on him and a gun in the vehicle.
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Brown, 34, could face the death penalty in the killing of Zarutska, who was stabbed from behind with a pocketknife while seated and looking at her phone in an unprovoked attack on August 22, 2025.
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The workers blamed Landi — who was still in charge — for their troubles, and an image of Landi posing, pirate-style, with a cartoon-villain expression and a cutlass between his teeth became a symbol for Eutelia’s misdeeds.
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The ultimate prop was the pirate flag, which could be decorated with a skull and crossbones (as in the classic Jolly Roger design), bleeding hearts, hourglasses, spears, cutlasses and skeletons.
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Miguel Vargas then hit a 1-1 cutter from Mitch Spence over the left-field wall for his 18th home run of the season to give the Sox a 3-0 lead.
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His last three cutter-drones raced past the frightened spawn siblings to the wall.
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“Stiletto.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stiletto. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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