knife-edge in English

noun
1
the edge of a knife.
noun

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1. 27 That left the tussle on a knife-edge but the tail-enders produced the goods for Ulster.

2. 21 That left the tussle on a knife-edge but the tail-enders produced the goods for Ulster.

3. It's because human genetics has taught us that when it comes to our telomerase, we humans live on a knife edge.

4. Loans on a knife-edge Controversially, when the scheme was established, Saddam was allowed to determine who could trade Iraqi oil

5. The yellow, blinkless eyes, with knife-edge pupils, flashed with the hate of Agelong feud as I edged against the wall

6. Razvaljaj buttery dough into the plate, wholesale knife edge, and placed on the sheet, coated paper, anoint it with egg and bake in rather hot oven.

7. Residual Belligerence is the first book set in the high-tech Thieves’ Guild universe of galactic war, knife-edge intrigue, alien invasion, thieves, assassins, bounty hunters and pirates

8. In a modification, the clamps include a wire-scraping jaw having, in addition to a body formed with a sharpened or knife edge, a shield having wire-guiding surfaces engageable by a lead wire being inserted into the clamp.

9. But she had been reading deeply of the Alps, and in all the histories of mountain exploits which she had read, of climbs up vertical cracks in sheer walls of rocks, Balancings upon ridges sharp as a knife edge, crawlings over smooth slabs with nowhere to rest the feet or hands, it was the ice-slope which had most kindled her imagination.