“Xin was shocked to find that he could not get up and noticed the deep stab from the Elantas sword in his thigh.”

“I feel a stab in my ribs. Tracy was attempting to get my attention with her elbow.”

“I might have to take another stab at changing careers.”

“Both the suspected stabber and victim of the attack are from Laois and were thought to have been at a nightclub in the town.”

“He was not 100 per cent sure whether it was that person or whether it was the person who handed the knife to the stabber.”

“Police nabbed the stabber while he was trying to escape from the apartment where they both lived.”

“The officer who claimed to have been the victim of an attempted stabbing.”

“However, here it's mostly blunt injuries to the head and face rather than stabbings.”

“A man was killed and five people were fighting for their lives today after a rampaging knifeman carried out a series of stabbings.”

“There have been reports of recent attempted kidnappings, muggings and stabbings.”