How to Use dagger in a Sentence

dagger

noun

• There is a reason great white sharks have an entourage that swims dangerously close to those pearly dagger teeth.
  — J. Tyler Rohrer, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2021
• The dagger that put the margin back up over 20 points came with time running out in the third period.
  — Joe Magill, cleveland, 3 Mar. 2021
• The 19-year-old pauses to mimic Elektra's sai dagger hand twirls.
  — EW.com, 1 Aug. 2024
• By far the best scene is only tangentially related to the cloak-and-dagger stuff.
  — Chris Hewitt, Star Tribune, 18 Mar. 2021
• Then Sexton canned a cold-blooded dagger in Irving’s face with 1.2 left to tie the game.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 21 Jan. 2021
• After the dagger dropped through the net, Lillard raised his arms and tapped his wrist, bringing Dame Time to primetime.
  — Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 8 Mar. 2021
• Irving had 14 points in the third, and eight more in the fourth — even sticking the dagger with a couple late 3-pointers from way behind the stripe.
  — Mike Mazzeo, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2021
• And then an old nemesis from the Cavs-Warriors Finals matchups delivered the dagger.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 28 Mar. 2021
• George’s pull-up three-point shot over Luka Doncic for the Clippers’ final basket was the dagger.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2021
• Arkansas has a chance to put a dagger in Louisiana Tech after a single and two walks to begin the eighth.
  — Arkansas Online, 13 Mar. 2021
• DeRozan secured the rebound and hit two more free throws, and the Spurs survived without having to hold their breath on one final Curry dagger.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Feb. 2021
• 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
• 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
• Even after this dagger to the heart, Dunn wasn’t willing to give up on the novel.
  — oregonlive, 3 Oct. 2022
• One was a heart with wings on her right wrist and the other was a rose with a dagger on her shoulder blade.
  — Veronica Fulton, NBC News, 2 Oct. 2022
• The two Leonard hit late in the fourth followed by Gordon’s final 3 proved to be daggers.
  — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 17 Apr. 2023
• 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

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024