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Get to know Knifing better with 6 real example sentences, the meaning.

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Knifing in a sentence

Knifing | Knifed | Knifes

Knifing meaning

An instance of stabbing with a knife.

Using Knifing

  • The main meaning on this page is: An instance of stabbing with a knife.

Context around Knifing

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 29.7 words
  • Position in the sentence: 1 start, 3 middle, 2 end
  • Sentence types: 6 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Knifing

  • In this selection, "knifing" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 29.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, fatally, strike, tens and sub stand out and add context to how "knifing" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include despite a knifing sub zero and from a knifing found an. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "knifing" sits close to words such as aaba, aafc and aaib, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with knifing

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Parents demand pair suspected of knifing to death their. (9 words)

He came out of his cell with magazines under his clothes to protect him from a knifing, found an enemy he was stalking and bashed him. (26 words)

Yes, that really was Pita Taufatofua, the Tongan flagbearer known for his oiled-up exhibitionism at Rio 2016, pulling the same trick by stripping to the waist despite a knifing sub-zero wind. (33 words)

At a hearing overnight, Australia's Federal Court ordered X, formerly called Twitter, to temporarily hide posts showing video of the incident a week earlier, in which a teenager was charged with terrorism for knifing an Assyrian priest and others. (40 words)

In the single most consequential labor battle of the past two years, Walsh helped Biden impose a contract on railroad workers and their ability to strike, knifing tens of thousands of union members in the back. (36 words)

Calocane is accused of fatally knifing Ms O’Malley-Kumar and Mr Webber, who were studying medicine and history at the University of Nottingham respectively, on Ilkeston Road at around 4am on June 13. (34 words)

Example sentences (6)

Calocane is accused of fatally knifing Ms O’Malley-Kumar and Mr Webber, who were studying medicine and history at the University of Nottingham respectively, on Ilkeston Road at around 4am on June 13.

In the single most consequential labor battle of the past two years, Walsh helped Biden impose a contract on railroad workers and their ability to strike, knifing tens of thousands of union members in the back.

At a hearing overnight, Australia's Federal Court ordered X, formerly called Twitter, to temporarily hide posts showing video of the incident a week earlier, in which a teenager was charged with terrorism for knifing an Assyrian priest and others.

He came out of his cell with magazines under his clothes to protect him from a knifing, found an enemy he was stalking and bashed him.

Parents demand pair suspected of knifing to death their.

Yes, that really was Pita Taufatofua, the Tongan flagbearer known for his oiled-up exhibitionism at Rio 2016, pulling the same trick by stripping to the waist despite a knifing sub-zero wind.

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "knifing" in a sentence?
An example: "Calocane is accused of fatally knifing Ms O’Malley-Kumar and Mr Webber, who were studying medicine and history at the University of Nottingham respectively, on Ilkeston Road at around 4am on June 13." This page contains 6 example sentences with the word "knifing" from authentic English texts.
What does "knifing" mean?
Knifing means: An instance of stabbing with a knife.
How many example sentences with "knifing" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 6 example sentences with "knifing", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.