How to Use dagger in a Sentence

dagger

noun
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  • Deja felt the weight of the dagger in her hand as a cold clarity overcame her.
    — Brittany N. Williams, NOLA.com, 26 Oct. 2020
  • The magazine reports the rapper got a dagger tattoo on his face in honor of his brother.
    — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 24 Nov. 2020
  • The Saints run a dagger concept to get the drive started, but Brees quickly takes the easy money.
    — Jeff Nowak, NOLA.com, 17 Nov. 2020
  • When the Butcher stabs Millie with an ancient dagger, his soul shifts into her body and vice versa.
    — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2020
  • That was the dagger in a game that was filled with great defensive plays by American Leadership.
    — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 14 Nov. 2020
  • The Packers gained only one yard on the next three plays, setting up Crosby's dagger field goal from 40 yards away.
    — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Nov. 2020
  • Then Brown’s dagger 3-pointer sent MSU’s bench into a frenzy.
    — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 5 Dec. 2020
  • But, also, a pair of unfriendly spots by officials proved to be the dagger that derailed another trip to Seattle.
    — Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 15 Nov. 2020
  • Her prayer, stab-sharp, convulses not only her temples and the hand that clutches a dagger, but the whole rough thrash of limbs, gown, and sheets that fills this single-minded canvas.
    — Julian Bell, The New York Review of Books, 1 Dec. 2020
  • Marshall proceeded to hand the Badgers a break, dropping Tuttle’s on-target pass and wasting what might have been the dagger.
    — Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Dec. 2020
  • His fourth-quarter dagger on a 13-yard pass from Jones was just the latest example of connecting the high-point catch with careful footwork.
    — Michael Casagrande | [email protected], al, 20 Oct. 2020
  • Wilson and Day dialed up the same dagger concept referenced earlier, and the pre-snap picture tells the QB to anticipate the dig route to break open.
    — cleveland, 25 Nov. 2020
  • The book can feel like a dagger that stabs you again and again.
    — Peter C. Baker, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2022
  • That set up the dagger in the bottom half of the inning.
    — Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 26 Mar. 2022
  • The dagger came in the final minute of the third quarter.
    — Kevin Reynolds, Dallas News, 9 Jan. 2021
  • Now there’s a lot of subterfuge and a lot of cloak and dagger.
    — Matthew Schneier, Vulture, 15 Apr. 2021
  • The final turnover of the night from Hall was the dagger, a 65-yard pick-six from Rickie Williams.
    — al, 9 Sep. 2023
  • At points, the show is more of a cabaret than a narrative aimed like a dagger at the heart.
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
  • V-neck cut, which is dagger-sharp and hits right at the sternum.
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 21 Oct. 2022
  • The iron dagger of King Tutankhamen with its gold sheath.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 23 Feb. 2022
  • Then there were the final two daggers, late in the fourth quarter.
    — The Arizona Republic, 17 Feb. 2023
  • On Google Maps, the reservoir shows up as a blue dagger stabbing the heart of Diyala.
    — Marcus Yam, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2021
  • The knife was a dagger-type blade and the BB gun was solid black and looked like a real weapon.
    — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 11 June 2021
  • But that’s as far as this cloak-and-dagger caper took me.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Among the most intriguing finds made at the site is a 2,000-year-old iron dagger.
    — Isis Davis-Marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 May 2021
  • But a dagger layup by Hayes and 3 by Cunningham sealed the win.
    — Omari Sankofa Ii, Detroit Free Press, 15 Jan. 2022
  • Jae Crowder answered with a dagger 3 to put the game away.
    — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 31 May 2021
  • Two plays later, Etienne found the end zone once more, which would be the dagger in this one.
    — Scott Thompson, Fox News, 8 Oct. 2023
  • The 19-year-old pauses to mimic Elektra's sai dagger hand twirls.
    — EW.com, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Irving averaged 30 points over the final three games of that series including hitting the dagger shot over Stephen Curry.
    — Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 June 2024

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