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• I keep my knives sharp so that they don't slip unexpectedly while carving.
• Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.
• My nephew is a sharp lad; he can count to 100 in six languages, and he's only five years old.
• At school, despite his sharp mind, Malcolm was laughed at by teachers when he said he wanted to be a lawyer.
• Ernest made the pencil too sharp and accidentally stabbed himself with it.
• a sharp hill;  a face with sharp features
• The orchestra's third violin several times was sharp about an eighth of a tone.
• Milly couldn't stand sharp cheeses when she was pregnant, because they made her nauseated.
• A pregnant woman during labor normally experiences a number of sharp contractions.
• She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact.
• Michael had a number of sharp ventures that he kept off the books.
• a sharp dealer;  a sharp customer
• the necessity of being so sharp and exacting
• You'll need sharp aim to make that shot.
• Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus.[...]A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that. Developed as a tool to electronically combine the sharpest bits of multiple digital images, focus stacking is a boon to biologists seeking full focus on a micron scale.
• sharp criticism;  When the two rivals met, first there were sharp words, and then a fight broke out.
• You look so sharp in that tuxedo!
• Keep a sharp watch on the prisoners. I don't want them to escape!
• Drive down Main for three quarters of a mile, then make a sharp right turn onto Pine.
• The street down which Warwick had come intersected Front Street at a sharp angle in front of the old hotel, forming a sort of flatiron block at the junction, known as Liberty Point
• a sharp ascent or descent;  a sharp turn or curve
• Sure, any planar graph can be five-colored. But that result is not sharp: in fact, any planar graph can be four-colored. That is sharp: the same can't be said for any lower number.
• Time and time again, the amateur player has lost the opportunity to make the really best move because he felt bound to follow some chess "rule" he had learned, rather than to make the sharp move which was indicated by the position.
• In such situations most chess players choose the obvious and logical way: they go in for sharp play. However, not everyone is a natural attacking player[...]
• a sharp pain;  the sharp and frosty winter air
• Sharp misery had worn him to the bones.
• the morning sharp and clear
• in sharpest perils faithful proved
• a sharp appetite
• in sharp contest of battle
• A sharp assault already is begun.
• sharp sand
• You bite so sharp at reasons.
• I'll see you at twelve o'clock sharp.
• I didn't enjoy the concert much because the tenor kept going sharp on the high notes.
• The pitch pipe sounded out a perfect F♯ (F sharp).
• Transposition frequently is harder to read because of all the sharps and flats on the staff.
• The piece was difficult to read after it had been transposed, since in the new key many notes were sharps.
• Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" is written in C♯ minor (C sharp minor.)
• Place sharps in the specially marked red container for safe disposal.
• If butchers had but the manners to go to sharps, gentlemen would be contented with a rubber at cuffs.
• The casino kept in the break room a set of pictures of known sharps for the bouncers to see.
• The Circle was one of the few dances the older sharps frequented; mostly they were to be found in pubs, pool-halls or at the track.
• That new musician must be tone deaf: he sharped half the notes of the song!
• sharp knife
• sharp mind
• sharp point
• sharp taste
• sharp note
• I'll see you at twelve o'clock, sharp.