knife edge
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.24 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "“Thank you, Flannery,” Anne said, her low voice a knife edge between sincerity and sarcasm, “for saving my life.""
- "While I'd never been to Pakistan, I'd seen plenty of towns like this one just across the border in Afghanistan, perched on a knife edge between life and death, settlements where the people had nothing in their lives except for war, a few goats and a lot of religion."
- "I'm on a knife edge, Lydia, don't you see?"