Below you will find example sentences with "knife crime". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Knife Crime in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: knife
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 15
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 26.5 words

Words in this phrase

knife crime

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • knife can mean: A utensil or a tool designed for cutting, consisting of a flat piece of hard material, usually steel or other metal (the blade), usually ... Frequent word
  • crime can mean: A specific act committed in violation of the law, especially criminal law. Common word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 4 start, 12 middle, 4 end
  • Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

assault on knife crime including the 1× convictions for knife crime in derbyshire 1× done about knife crime 1× filled with knife crime to see 1× gangs and knife crime and crime 1× impact of knife crime and street 1× in a knife crime initiative 1× in which knife crime has hit 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a reader thinks 1× a stretford shop 1× across south yorkshire 1× chief inspector and 1× chief superintendent helena 1× community artist sim 1×

Common sentence endings:

20 per cent 1× about knife crime 1× alone can fix 1× and knife amnesty 1× and search powers 1× as gun crime 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

violence 5× youth 3× year 3× show 3× gun 3× community 3× chief 2× lead 2× serious 2× police 2× absolutely 2× gang 2×

Related phrases

violent crime organized crime crime scene organised crime hate crime crime commissioner crime rates property crime utility knife kitchen knife

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around knife:

utility knife 11× kitchen knife 9× knife attack 7×

Just before it in the phrase index:

knife attack knee replacement knee injury kizz daniel kitchen table kitchen knife

Just after it in the phrase index:

knight frank knight riders knights templar knocked down knocked off knockout stages

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

knife attack

Same ending:

violent crime organized crime organised crime hate crime property crime rural crime

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "knife crime" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 26.5 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as assault on knife crime including the, convictions for knife crime in derbyshire, violence, youth and year stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with violent crime, organized crime, crime scene, utility knife, kitchen knife and knife attack, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with knife crime

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

A reader thinks knife crime should have the same consequences as gun crime. (13 words)

He plays Lenny Sampson, a reformed ex-convict involved in a knife crime initiative. (14 words)

The knife attack follows another year in which knife crime has hit the headlines in the capital. (17 words)

Longer example sentences

A Stretford shop could be closed via a closure order as a result of selling a knife to an undercover underage customer and there were other activities relating to knife crime at Sale High School, at Sale Metrolink and at Trafford Bar Metrolink. (43 words)

Speaking to the PA news agency backstage, he said: “I think that the politics around knife crime are so crucial to anyone that ends up in office (as prime minister), it’s important that whatever happens, something is done about knife crime. (42 words)

As well as this, officers have been visiting schools and youth clubs, delivering workshops and talks detailing the impact of knife crime and street robbery can have on those who carry offensive weapons and those they use them against. (39 words)

Exclamation examples

In a country filled with knife crime to see a famous actor threaten to knife anybody is absolutely disgusting! (19 words)

Example sentences (20)

Chief Superintendent Helena Barron, the force's lead for Serious youth violence and knife crime, said Northumbria Police "absolutely does not tolerate" gang-related criminality, knife crime or serious violence.

Speaking to the PA news agency backstage, he said: “I think that the politics around knife crime are so crucial to anyone that ends up in office (as prime minister), it’s important that whatever happens, something is done about knife crime.

Across South Yorkshire, we deliver educational activity to dispel some of the myths around knife crime and to educate young people on the real risks of carrying a knife.

The knife attack follows another year in which knife crime has hit the headlines in the capital.

A Stretford shop could be closed via a closure order as a result of selling a knife to an undercover underage customer and there were other activities relating to knife crime at Sale High School, at Sale Metrolink and at Trafford Bar Metrolink.

Hackney has one of the capital's worst rates of gang and knife violence with more than 350 knife crime offences already recorded so far this year.

New figures show three-quarters of cautions or convictions for knife crime in Derbyshire were handed to first-time knife offenders last year.

The sessions are delivered by the anti-knife crime charity, The Ben Kinsella Trust, and are part of a national week of action and knife amnesty.

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In a country filled with knife crime to see a famous actor threaten to knife anybody is absolutely disgusting!

A reader thinks knife crime should have the same consequences as gun crime.

In a piece announcing the campaign’s launch, Chronicle crime reporter Sophie Doughty wrote: “Together we are calling on every community in the North East to come together to tackle knife crime.

Knife crime, gun crime and youth violence on a whole are just symptoms of a much deeper problem.

Knife crime is up by even more, 21 per cent, as is gun crime, 20 per cent.

The mayor, answering questions on his LBC Radio phone-in show, said: 'There is a definite link, which has been shown to me by the police, of drugs and criminal gangs and knife crime and crime going up.

As well as this, officers have been visiting schools and youth clubs, delivering workshops and talks detailing the impact of knife crime and street robbery can have on those who carry offensive weapons and those they use them against.

Chief Inspector and VRN operational lead, Dave Oldfield, said: “Knife crime continues to be an issue not just in Lancashire but across the country and it’s not something that one agency or organisation alone can fix.

Community artist Sim Seema Mistry from Kala Arts added: “Let’s show a united front/solidarity against knife crime and violence on our streets.

Following the sweep, our cadets actively engaged with the community with distributing leaflets to support our knife crime campaign.

He has called for the launch of an “all out assault” on knife crime, including the use of “uninhibited” stop and search powers.

He plays Lenny Sampson, a reformed ex-convict involved in a knife crime initiative.

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