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1. The blades rotate around a central point.
2. The blade was round, and of flexible silver.
3. Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.
4. The blades of the small extractor fan were still.
5. The bullet hit him squarely between the shoulder blades.

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 Meanings and Examples of BLADE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
blade
 n.  flat part of the leaf, of any plant, especially of gramineous plants; cutting part of an instrument
Classic Sentence: (64 in 5 pages)
1  The handle of a hammer, the blade of a cold chisel, and the antennae of a pair of pincers were visible, protruding from the man's pocket.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE ...
2  Marius lowered his head in his turn; that cold and simple word had traversed his epic effusion like a blade of steel, and he felt it vanishing within him.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER V—ENLARGEMENT OF HORIZON
3  The first was thin, and had a long, iron-tipped cudgel; the second, who was a sort of colossus, carried, by the middle of the handle, with the blade downward, a butcher's pole-axe for slaughtering cattle.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XX—THE TRAP
4  At the moment when Jondrette said: "My name is Thenardier," Marius had trembled in every limb, and had leaned against the wall, as though he felt the cold of a steel blade through his heart.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XX—THE TRAP
5  Leblanc, and took an inkstand, a pen, and a sheet of paper from the drawer which he left half open, and in which gleamed the long blade of the knife.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XX—THE TRAP
6  Gavroche, as he listened, had seized a cane that Montparnasse held in his hand, and mechanically pulled at the upper part, and the blade of a dagger made its appearance.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ...
7  For my own part, I blame that last justice, the blade; but, antiquity admitted it.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—WHAT IS TO BE DONE IN THE ABYSS IF ONE DOES NO...
8  Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with the one is wounded with the other.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE N...
9  As to the rest of the blade, the master had slyly put that on one side to make himself a larding pin.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 1 THE THREE PRESENTS OF D'ARTAGNAN THE ELDER
10  It is true that the three others had endeavored to knock the young man down with chairs, stools, and crockery; but two or three scratches made by the Gascon's blade terrified them.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 10 A MOUSETRAP IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
11  The blade was round, and of flexible silver.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 52 CAPTIVITY: THE FIRST DAY
12  He still sought; but his eyes, darkened by death, encountered only the knife which had fallen from the hand of Felton, still smoking with the blood spread over its blade.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 59 WHAT TOOK PLACE AT PORTSMOUTH AUGUST 23, 1628
13  Then they saw from the other bank the executioner raise both his arms slowly; a moonbeam fell upon the blade of the large sword.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 66 EXECUTION
14  "I heard what you said about Scarlett too," cried Melanie, swinging on the stout old lady with the air of a duelist who, having withdrawn a blade from one prostrate opponent, turns hungrily toward another.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
15  And then it was, that suddenly sweeping his sickle-shaped lower jaw beneath him, Moby Dick had reaped away Ahab's leg, as a mower a blade of grass in the field.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 41. Moby Dick.
Example Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1  I've walked along that path for so many years I know every blade of grass.
2  Mishaps are like knives that either serve us or cut us as we grasp them by the handle or blade.
3  Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.
4  But police now know the murder weapon was a knife with a ten inch long blade.
5  Not a flower nor even a blade of grass will grow in this desert.
6  When he holds up his huge hand to indicate the direction, it is like the blade of a paddle.
7  The blade of the oar had entangled itself with something in the water.
8  A dull blade is best for this job to avoid cutting fabric accidently.
9  Beheading is one of the quickest and least painful ways to die - so long as the executioner is skilled, his blade sharp, and the condemned sits still.
10  The moment of death had obsessed him from childhood, when he had acquired that slight crouch, protecting his neck from the shining blade of the guillotine that might slice through.
11  The blades rotate around a central point.
12  The new range of engines all had a generic problem with their fan blades.
13  The blades of the small extractor fan were still.
14  He complained a little of a nagging pain between his shoulder blades.
15  The bullet hit him squarely between the shoulder blades.