Having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions.
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Examples for "sharp"
Examples for "sharp"
1The new measures follow a sharp increase in cases in recent days.
2Hard; sheep or goat; blue-veined; sharp; tangy; from Tigne Valley in Savoy.
3Semisoft; white; creamy; sharp; historic since the time of the Merovingian kings.
4Late yesterday, the recent sharp volatility of the New York market continued.
5Local media have reported sharp divisions within the government on the issue.
1China also joined the effort, cutting its key rate 27 basis points.
2The outcome was inevitable: cost-cutting measures were introduced, which mean job losses.
3Such consolidation would help firms to develop new products while cutting costs.
4This is cutting into oil industry revenues, and consequently oil industry royalties.
5The same would be true for any future deficit-cutting agreement, he said.
1However, he rejected suggestions that the problem was particularly acute in Westmeath.
2Main outcome measure: Two year survival after onset of acute lung injury.
3He said water and sanitation needs remained acute for many affected villages.
4Reuters reported last week that the problem is particularly acute in Belize.
5North Korea battles acute food shortages even in years with good harvests.
1A piercing chill grew in the dead air; the silence was terrifying.
2The trees break the wind that is so piercing in the clearings.
3For a moment, perfectly balanced between their piercing points, he writhed, tormented.
4Suddenly I had a clear and piercing thought that supplanted every imagining.
5It blew upon them in cruel menace of conquest, in piercing inclemency.
1He felt good; he had never enjoyed penetrating a woman so much.
2Gamma radiation is the most penetrating and energetic form of nuclear radiation.
3She gave them a penetrating look and came all the way in.
4He can't find a way of penetrating the system as it stands.
5Evelyn grew more interested; the rite was full of a penetrating mystery.
1A lot of violence, a lot of shootings and stabbing, I think.
2The stabbing victim was taken to Middlemore Hospital in a critical condition.
3Rupert then set me to try stabbing in various positions and postures.
4She blinked at the strong stream of light stabbing right at her.
5He never said a word, just walked in and began stabbing people.
1However, the railway denied today that it was discriminating against its workers.
2Opposition politicians have criticised the government for discriminating against Israel's non-Jewish minorities.
3Religious employers will also be more restricted in discriminating on religious grounds.
4Results: The nomogram was developed and found to be accurate and discriminating.
5A more discriminating therapy was needed, especially for cancers that were nonlocalized.
1Acute in thought and incisive in speech, he is a fluent talker.
2It was resonant, far-reaching, incisive; but it rang abruptly and without mellowness.
3His utterance was incisive; his voice, eager and quick, filled the room.
4The diffident girl had suddenly assumed the incisive strength of observant womanhood.
5I'm sure that it was rather perceptive and incisive, whatever it was.
1That trio form also provide a penetrative and versatile pace bowling attack.
2It's a deep, penetrative cold, but perhaps you get used to it.
3On the flipside, most men achieve orgasm and ejaculation with penetrative sex.
4Her comments on people were saltily satiric and penetrative of accepted hypocrisies.
5Verily, this is from the penetrative power of the Word of God!
1He reached in, and his hand emerged with a knifelike letter opener.
2Here she cached all of her treasure except a single knifelike sliver.
3With age, her delicate beauty had hardened into something knifelike and more defining.
4Beside another lamp was a knifelike object, carved out of bone.
5The flame guttered and rose to a knifelike orange point.
1Some pain of a lancinating type occurred in the breast at this time.
2Those named later become tender, and the seat of lancinating or shooting pains.
3There in that lancinating cold, in an ecstasy of rage, despairfully he poised over it.
4She only knew they beat upon her with the cruel, lancinating sharpness of hail driven by the wind.
5There came over me a sense of sickly faintness, accompanied with acute, lancinating pains in the head and neck.
1Those named later become tender, and the seat of lancinating or shooting pains.
2She only knew they beat upon her with the cruel, lancinating sharpness of hail driven by the wind.
3There came over me a sense of sickly faintness, accompanied with acute, lancinating pains in the head and neck.
4She sighed, half with lancinating regret, and half in gentle disdain of that mercurial creature aged less than thirty.
5Perhaps never before, only once in any case, did I experience an excitement so lancinating as I experienced that day.
1Given the opportunity, and state government intentions, they're keen to encourage visitors.
2Europe in particular will be keen to near-source as much as possible.
3He said companies were extremely keen to take on the new technology.
4Our group is really keen to challenge themselves and accept the challenge.
5Of course I am. The Nationals' coalition partners are certainly not keen.
6He said France and Japan were keen to strengthen the companies' alliance.
7Pakistan is keen to demonstrate that it is a responsible nuclear power.
8That is a situation that U.S. business groups are keen to avoid.
9There is, to be sure, a keen irony to the UK situation.
10Actually, the local utilities have been really keen to work with us.
11However, others seem keen to resist such a change in church teaching.
12We'll rise early, for I'm quite keen to be on my way.
13They were keen, Morris said, to have as much independence as possible.
14Institutional shareholders said they were keen to subscribe, given the large discount.
15I'm very keen to visit the Kimberly region of WA this year.
16I am keen to continue learning and share my ideas with others.
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