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How to use kukri in a sentence

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The kukri is a traditional Nepalese large knife, which is carried by Gurkha soldiers.
He was about to cut his finger on the kukri he kept on his desk for the blood needed in the spell when he noticed something.
Another jemadar prowled, revolver in one hand, primed grenade in the other, and kukri clenched between his teeth.
And who can forget Jatayu in his film Sonar Kella brandishing a kukri?
On her ankle was a slight bulge where she kept a kukri hidden.
In 2009, an estimated 250,000 animals were killed by men wielding traditional curved kukri knives during an event which attracted up to a million worshippers to the town 60 miles from Kathmandu.
Oxford dons did more in a practical way to people the empire with good chaps who knew how to face down a fellow with an assegai or kukri in his hand.
The types include the wavy-bladed Malayan kris, the short, curved kukri used by the Gurkhas, the Hindu katar with its flat triangular blade, and innumerable others.
To end the first day of the event, thousands of buffaloes enclosed in a compound surrounded by a high wall, are decapitated by a group of specially chosen men using curved kukri knives.
One of the most respected steel weapons is that of the Gurkhas called a Kukri.
Examples from Classical Literature
When I begged for mercy, they threatened to behead me and struck me on the head with the handle of a kukri.
One of the Gurkhas bent down, sliced off some of the cloth with his kukri, and burst out laughing.
It will be a bad lookout for the Count if the edge of that kukri ever touches his throat, driven by that stern, ice-cold hand!
Their national weapon is the kukri, a heavy curved knife, which they use for every possible purpose.
Karbir turned on him like a tiger, with kukri uplifted, and the Punjabi jumped back.
One Gurkha made his way into a house, and single-handed captured five Germans, whom he marched off at the point of his kukri.
If he is a good shot, and expert with his kukri and kora, so much the better for him.
Bechan walks to a hanging festoon of it and cuts it through with a blow of his kukri.
An entire section is dedicated to artefacts and objects ranging from a biscuit box, badges, kukri s, a card holder and medical kits.
Because there was no room for Corporal Gurung to aim his rifle he used his 18-inch kukri against the man.
Dermot selected the biggest stem and hacked it down with his kukri.
The kukri is a knife associated with soldiers from which Asian people?
The likes of HMV, Head, Kukri, Liberty Blue, Movie House and Boojum will all be there, alongside The Daily Mirror of course.
Harker evidently meant to try the matter, for he had ready his great Kukri knife and made a fierce and sudden cut at him.
Today's 3,400 Gurkhas carry the traditional Kukri curved knife.
Now United bosses have drafted in dance dazzlers from the Kukri Allstarzz troop to bring more razzmatazz to proceedings.
The first snake recorded at the nest was a small Cantor's Kukri Snake, which broke through the nest wall and then bit a nestling and tried to swallow it.
Willis, an ambassador for Commonwealth Games England kit suppliers Kukri, got the better of Jamieson at the World Championships in Barcelona this summer.
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