knife-edged
Example Sentences
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All of the characters have a flair for knife-edged quips, but Basil is a veritable font of them.
From Washington Post • Nov. 20, 2018
There was always a knife-edged crease in his trousers and his shoes glittered.
From Time • Oct. 21, 2016
And the key to that was Coleman himself—his fleet but knife-edged phrasing and, still more, his tone: nakedly passionate, infused with note-bending blues.
From Slate • Jun. 11, 2015
Mr. Nighy’s Tom, in contrast, is a blinding kinetic force, a creature who never stops moving, advancing and retreating in a flurry of knife-edged angles, forever casing out and sizing up his environment.
From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2015
All around, tall stalks of cane were weaving and dancing to the rattling rhythm of their knife-edged blades.
From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
