night of long knives
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.83 in modern English
32
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
2
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative letter-case form of night of long knives (“purge”) used especially in reference to a specific one, particularly the 1934 one in Germany, but also e.g. the British one of 1962.
Example Sentences
- "A Von Thadden success, observers predicted, would bring another “night of long knives” in German politics. A meeting in a German provincial city between David and the man who has been called a latter-day Adolf was arranged."
- "[…] few of the Shabaqniks helped Ariel Sharon and had secret links with zealot settlers in the West Bank is quite another matter. The Al Najdah incident increased the likelihood that Rabin will order another night of long knives - this time against […]"
- "Some day there would be another night of long knives at the KGB, and he would come home and find that the wrong side had won. The furniture would be smashed and the wallpaper and carpets ripped up from the hurried search, and […]"
- "I've been waiting to hear it for the last seven years, this echo of another night of long knives in another time, another place. Things happen slower in this world, not quite so condensed. But they still happen."
- "The book critically appraises the eras of all the Senate Presidents and four Speakers, focusing essentially on their leadership dexterousness and the challenges, intrigues, brinkmanship, debilitating drama, power play and nights of long knives […]"
- "The hunting spree against the country's peaceful population by criminals dispatched under the guise of “Putin's tourists” will be perpetrated in broad daylight, and gory memories of the nights of long knives will seem to mankind but a daunting prelude to a massacre never heard of before on the planet."