1.   Just for a moment he looked as shaken as if her innocent words had been a knife thrust.

2.   The thought was like a knife thrust.

3.   Engaged in a sex act with a prostitute or servant girl, Rivers is dispatched by a knife thrust upwards through the bed and into his body.

4.   The working group has proposed that this be replaced by a light rainproof tunic over a shirt able to resist a knife thrust or a low-velocity bullet.