Used in a Sentence

stiletto

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for stiletto.

Editorial note

Its shallow draft means the M80 Stiletto can operate in littoral and riverineenvironments and potentially allows for beach landings.

Examples16
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

A woman's shoe with a tall, slender heel (called a stiletto heel).

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of stiletto gathered in one view.

noun

A woman's shoe with a tall, slender heel (called a stiletto heel).

noun

A small, slender knife or dagger-like weapon intended for stabbing.

noun

A rapier.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for stiletto.

noun

A woman's shoe with a tall, slender heel (called a stiletto heel).

noun

A small, slender knife or dagger-like weapon intended for stabbing.

noun

A rapier.

noun

An awl.

Example sentences

1

Its shallow draft means the M80 Stiletto can operate in littoral and riverineenvironments and potentially allows for beach landings.

2

Also harder to use in combination with another weapon and less concealable than the later stiletto.

3

But someone willing to spend $260 on a stiletto probably cares about what hammer you use.

4

In court in San Diego women are not permitted to where stiletto heels to court.

5

It's ADA approved for wheelchairs, and certified compatible with stiletto heels (by someone that must have an absolutely bizarre certification facility).

6

To get this event model working on the web, they literally shoe-horned a size 6 stiletto onto a size 12 male foot.

7

The trivial small-print on a nonchalantly-ticked online form stops your life, like a blunt rusty bureaucratic stiletto pushed slowly through your wide disbelieving eye.

8

I had a good chuckle at low-key stiletto of 'purported' here.

9

I had the girlfriend start attacking me with her stiletto A friend in Amsterdam stopped a guy in the process of beating a woman on the street.

10

Now I'm imagining burly weight lifters in stiletto heels.

11

My wife set her iphone6 down on the floor next to her seat at a party once, and then stepped on it with a stiletto (or some other thin-healed high-heal shoe, idk women's fashion).

12

But I prepared myself philosophically, even then, by seeing that nobody took out a stiletto and cut my balls off, nobody vomited and ran away, nobody called the cops.

Quote examples

1

Some of them seem to have an appreciative "cool factor": Skyfall, Saber, Stiletto...

2

Never could figure out wtf a "stiletto" is though, it wasn't in the ancient dictionary I had at the time.

3

I love Zork because I started learning English on it (forest being one of the first words, never could find "stiletto" in any dictionary I had!).

4

>"Nobody took out a stiletto and cut my balls off" -- I've always loved that expression.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use stiletto in a sentence?

Its shallow draft means the M80 Stiletto can operate in littoral and riverineenvironments and potentially allows for beach landings.

What does stiletto mean?

A woman's shoe with a tall, slender heel (called a stiletto heel).

What part of speech is stiletto?

stiletto is commonly used as noun.