switchblade knife in a sentence
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- A 26-year-old teacher was stabbed to death with a switchblade knife Wednesday in a school hallway, allegedly by a 13-year-old student disgruntled about being scolded for tardiness, police said.
- The following year, Schrade founded the New York Press Button Knife Company to manufacture his switchblade knife pattern, which had a unique release button mounted in the knife bolster.
- The defendant, Gerard van Bladeren, is expected to explain why he took a switchblade knife to the painting " Cathedra " in Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum, slicing the canvas several times.
- Hank notices Karl nearby and correctly assuming that he is also spying on Sophie, he moves in with a switchblade, while Karl pulls out a switchblade knife of his own.
- Occasional disputes over what constitutes a switchblade knife under federal law has occasionally resulted in U . S . Customs seizures of knives from U . S . importers or manufacturers.
- Can we sit by complacently and ignore the bloodshed in our streets ? " The ban on switchblade knives was eventually enacted into law as the Switchblade Knife Act of 1958.
- Just a day ago, the nation was horrified to learn a 13-year-old boy stabbed his English teacher to death with a switchblade knife after he was reprimanded for being late to class.
- Some U . S . congressmen saw the switchblade controversy as a political opportunity to capitalize on constant negative accounts of the switchblade knife and its connection to violence and youth gangs.
- In the USA, switchblades remain illegal to import from abroad or to purchase through interstate commerce since 1958 under the Switchblade Knife Act ( 15 U . S . C . ��1241-1245 ).
- In March, another man who described himself as schizophrenic and psychotic pleaded guilty to charges that he used a switchblade knife to slash a work by American abstract impressionist Barnett Newman in 1997.