How to Use double-edged in a Sentence

double-edged

adjective
  • Given the fact that more than 20 of her rapists are still roaming free, this fame may be double-edged.
    — Gaby Wood, Vogue, 21 Feb. 2026
  • To call a musician a virtuoso can be double-edged.
    — Justin Davidson, Vulture, 29 Apr. 2026
  • However, trust is double-edged.
    — Julian Hayes Ii, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • There, too, his advocacy is double-edged.
    — Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 23 Mar. 2026
  • The blade was at least ten inches long and double-edged, honed on one side with a wavy scalloped finish, the other a jagged toothing like a lumberjack’s saw.
    — Chang-Rae Lee, New Yorker, 3 May 2026
  • Seneca’s and Cicero’s invocations of humanitas were as double-edged as our own talk of the humanities, pointing at once to a body of knowledge and to a moral choice that learning might inspire.
    — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2025
  • The movie’s Spanish title could also be translated as The Thaw, as fitting and double-edged as The Meltdown, but with a slightly different slant, as in Lina’s eventual warming to Inés.
    — Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 14 May 2026

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