sharp
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
Brent held above $100 a barrel after Wednesday’s sharp rally, as traders assessed escalating attacks on Gulf shipping and renewed Houthi strikes on Saudi Arabia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Sales fell a sharp 19%, to $790.2 million, after the prior-year launch of Nintendo Switch 2, planned store closures, and the divestiture of the company’s France operations, GameStop said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
Following such a sharp selloff, two very different messages could cause Oracle shares to bounce.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Designed by Adrian, the big cat has shoelace-style stitching running up his belly and detachable slippers tipped with sharp claws.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
I swallowed a piece of bone, feeling the sharp edges in my throat.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
No one associated with the musical knows whether a show so right for pastry puns set to sharps and flats can be a hefty source of … dough.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2023
In 2019, the organization installed two sharps containers in Ely, a city of fewer than 4,000 residents.
From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2022
They even found ways to put sharps containers out of sight, so that those who were nervous about shots weren’t fearful.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 25, 2022
Generally, those were sharps rises, swiftly followed by steep falls.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2021
The order of flats is the reverse of the order of sharps: B flat, E flat, A flat, D flat, G flat, C flat, F flat.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
Because the telescope observes from space, it can capture sharper images across complete rotations of Saturn without the blurring caused by Earth's atmosphere.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz wants to leave himself room for a sharper response should Russia continue or intensify such attacks, the officials said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Sylvester said the company needs to be better about staying on top of trends and having a sharper, tighter clothing selection.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
Arsenal looked sharper, Tzolis looked incredible, Lewis-Skelly wanted to show he's fighting for his place and City looked absolutely lost, it's only the community shield but what a great show from the Arsenal!
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
“Only thirty-four cents. She’s a lot sharper than Bruce.”
From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg
“The sharpest anger doesn’t really stem from stricter rules necessarily. It’s coming from a breakdown in transparency,” said Taylor Cunningham, a senior director at Trustpilot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Though by her own admission she was often furious about many things, her sharpest weapon was always a deadly talent for stating the obvious.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Huang reserved his sharpest warning for governments that dwell on the technology's risks.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
He distilled the disagreement into the dissent’s sharpest line.
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026
Young heads still meake the sharpest, they do say.”
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
These are some macho men of the old Southern tradition, and trying their final product usually consists of a gigantically sharped bushman’s knife hacking through a Fred Flintstone style brontosaurus size steak.
From Forbes ● Jan. 21, 2015
Hence didactic William sharped his own son out of board-money.
From Time Magazine Archive
"And you left it?" she sharped, her voice tense.
From Further Foolishness by Stephen Leacock
Dickens's sentiment seldom rings perfectly true; too often it is sharped to flippancy, or flatted to mawkishness.
From Washington Irving by Henry Walcott Boynton
The transcriber had failed to make this change, and so had lost the uplifting effect of the sharped F. All the life and color of the phrase had been destroyed, and the result was intolerable.
From The Gates of Chance by Van Tassel Sutphen
Keaton’s comeback is the result, he says, of sharping his focus.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 13, 2014
With all this injustice, he is never a good case, but, like those among I men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor.
From Time Magazine Archive
Husky, usurious, "Doc" believed sharping made the victim sharp.
From Time Magazine Archive
Outwardly innocent, Santana's instrumental solos are long-lined and full of musical guile, bending, flatting and sharping with something of the intricacy of Oriental music.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Great Kaan hath prohibited all gambling and sharping, things more prevalent there than in any other part of the world.
From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Henry Yule
Vocabulary lists containing sharp
Common Five-letter Words for Wordle, List 5
Looking to grow your vocabulary? Check out this interactive, curated word list from our team of English language specialists at Vocabulary.com – one of over 17,000 lists we've built to help learners worldwide!
Music - Introductory
Interested in learning more words like this one? Our team at Vocabulary.com has got you covered! You can review flashcards, quiz yourself, practice spelling, and more – and it's all completely free to use!
"Encounter"
Want to remember this word for good? Start your learning journey today with our library of interactive, themed word lists built by the experts at Vocabulary.com – we'll help you make the most of your study time!
