A strong blow with a knife or other sharp pointed instrument.
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Examples for "thrust "
Examples for "thrust "
1 The essential thrust of the latest National Competitiveness Council report is clear.
2 Pressing his case now thrust the issue into the 2016 presidential campaign.
3 That is the fundamental thrust of a new Government report on retirement.
4 It is into this tense political situation that Eragon finds himself thrust .
5 Dear Jesse, Transforming laws has been a major thrust of feminist work.
1 Captain October also revealed that Curran had indeed suffered fatal stab wounds.
2 Is your new hand especially designed to stab people in the back?
3 According to survivors' accounts, the four suffered stab wounds before they escaped.
4 I wanted to stab him through the heart right there and then.
5 She felt a keen kinship, a stab of hope for his success.
1 The pain in his side was as keen as a knife thrust .
2 Every artless question had been a knife thrust in a sensitive spot.
3 She forced my aura back in upon itself like a knife thrust .
4 And his pulses leaped as he felt the knife thrust into his palm.
5 A knife thrust , sheathed in silence, ripped his shoulder gave him his cue.
6 You want to get a good knife thrust yourself, it seems.
7 And besides, did I not swear on the night of the knife thrust ?
8 The sharp clatter of obedience went through Lutha's belly like a knife thrust .
9 Was it to be a knife thrust in the dark?
10 It was strange how like a knife thrust that word of hers-hopeless-wentthroughhim.
11 Did that mean he feared a stealthy assassination, a knife thrust from the dark?
12 A shot on a lonely trap line, a single knife thrust - and who would know?
13 My leg lashed out, and I combined the kick with an angled knife thrust .
14 Fergus McRae still carried the gash from a knife thrust earned in a drunken brawl.
15 The final knife thrust of the KGB, thought Masha.
16 He was probably alluding to the knife thrust for which he had recently tended Dario.
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