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"Sharper" in a Sentence (15 examples)
I can't help but feel that when I come here, all my senses are sharper than usual.
The tongue is sharper than the sword.
Her lips are more tender than rose-buds, her mouth is sweeter than the honeycomb, and yet that kiss has left a sting sharper than the sting of a bee!
The new technology in these super telescopes will produce images 10 times sharper than those from the Hubble, even though they are ground-based.
Her delicate feet pained her as if they were cut with knives, but she did not feel it, for the pain at her heart was much sharper.
My pencil is sharper than your sword.
In the retina of the eye, a cone has a much smaller receptive field than a rod, giving us sharper colour vision in bright conditions.
I need a sharper knife.
Tom's axe is sharper than mine.
Tom's ax is sharper than mine.
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I could plainly diſcover from whence one Family derives a long Chin; why a ſecond hath abounded with Knaves for two Generations, and Fools for two more; why a third happened to be crack-brained, and a fourth to be Sharpers.
Our young gentlemen who go to Rome will do well to be upon their guard against a set of sharpers, (some of them of our own country,) who deal in pictures and antiques, and very often impose upon the uninformed stranger, by selling him trash, as the productions of the most celebrated artists.
He was a man whom scarcely any amount of fortune could have benefited permanently, and who was made to be ruined, to cheat small tradesmen, to be the victim of astuter sharpers …
1878, John Payne, Introduction, in François Villon, Poems, translated by John Payne, New York: Boni & Liveright, c. 1918, p. 33 https://archive.org/details/poemsvillon00vill […] in a twinkling the accomplished sharper changes the pitchers and pretending to examine the contents, asks the tapster what kind of wine he has given him […]
1882, W. S. Gilbert, "Emily, John, James, and I: A Derby Legend" in The "Bab" Ballads, Philadelphia: David McKay, publishing date not given, p. 275, https://archive.org/details/babballads00gilb The Derby Day sun glittered gaily on cads, / On maidens with gamboge hair, / On sharpers and pickpockets, swindlers and pads— / (For I, with my harp, was there).
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