Sharp

I keep my knives sharp so that they don't slip unexpectedly while carving.

Ernest made the pencil too sharp and accidentally stabbed himself with it.

A face with sharp features

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.

If a knife which is sharp is incorrectly used it will obviously be dangerous.

Fifteen children reported handling curvos, five machetes, and one a sharp knife used to cut yellow leaves off the banana plants.

Yet, review of 25 years of English language literature on the subject of sharp force injury adds remarkably little to this topic. Sharp force covers a vast array of injuries produced with sharp objects capable of cutting or stabbing or both.

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.

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.

This grapefruit is especially sharp.

A pregnant woman during labor normally experiences a number of sharp contractions.

The man turned and made a sharp movement towards the door.

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, sharp practice

But, as they have hitherto stood, a clergyman established in a competent living is not under the necessity of being so sharp, vigilant, 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.

The reviews have ranged from excellent (In Touch, Jan 76, and Gay Literature, Winter 76) to qualified praise (GCN, 6 Mar 76) to sharp attack (Allen Young in the current Gay Liberator; Allen calls it trivial and misogynist.

You look so sharp in that tuxedo!

A sharp dresser partial to snakeskin shoes whose miniature Australian shepherd dog Saatchi is a constant fixture on family outings, [Donald] Tang's next move was to reinvent himself as a dealmaker connecting China with Hollywood amid growing demand for entertainment content in both countries.

Keep a sharp watch on the prisoners. I don't want them to escape!

Jones, the centre forward, made a sharp start to the game.

a sharp contrast, a sharp distinction

Drive down Main for three quarters of a mile, then make a sharp right turn onto Pine.

a sharp turn or curve

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

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 night was Winter in his roughest mood; the morning sharp and clear.

In sharpest perils faithful proved, Let his soul love thee to the end.

a sharp appetite

And fear of God, from whom their piety feign'd In sharp contest of battle found no aid Against invaders

A sharp assault already is begun;

Well-burnt good lime and sharp sand, if very sharp, a load of sand (about 36 bushels) to a hundred of lime (being 25 bushels, or a hundred pecks[…]

“[W]hy this last week we ha'n't had nothing at all but some dry musty red herrings; so you may think, Miss, we're kept pretty sharp!”

“[…] It’s child’s play to find the stuff now. I’ve half a mind to dine first.” “I don’t feel sharp,” growled Morgan.

The iron plates rang sharp, but turn'd the spear

You bite so sharp at reasons.

South of the city the river turns sharp to the east.

sharp left, sharp right

I'll see you at twelve o'clock sharp.

I didn't enjoy the concert much because the soprano sang sharp on all the high notes.

1867, Dutton Cook, Hobson's Choice, Chapter 8, “Music Hath Charms”, p. 72 https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Hobson_s_Choice/hwhhEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Matilda+Milner+frequently+sang+sharp%22&pg=PA72&printsec=frontcover Whereas Matilda Milner frequently sang sharp, in spite of the efforts of Miss Brown, who played the accompaniment, to give her the right note and keep her in tune.

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 billiard sharp whom anyone catches / His doom's extremely hard— [...]

The casino kept in the break room a set of pictures of known sharps for the bouncers to see.

This usage is often classified as variant spelling of shark, and unrelated to the 'pointed' or 'cutting' meanings of sharp.

here are good fish to be picked out of sharps and stop-holes into the water-tables

While he worked he talked to his ducks, who were waddling about hopefully, as it was almost time for the red bucket to be filled with sharps and potato-peelings.

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!

he made a shift yet to pick up a Sorry Living upon the Rook ; and not by Sharping alone , but now and then by downright Stealing