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