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Sharply
"Sharply" in a Sentence (26 examples)
The plane rose sharply before leveling off as it left the coast.
Corporate earnings in the first quarter improved sharply.
The roof slopes sharply.
Hideo turned the steering wheel sharply to avoid the bicyclist.
The bus stopped sharply.
Why has the birthrate declined so sharply?
The reviewer is sharply critical of the novel.
Industrial production rose sharply in July.
Compared with the level of a year ago, the price is sharply lower.
Thanks to the heavy rain, vegetable prices rose sharply.
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The stick was sharply tapered at one end.
When I touched the snake it recoiled sharply.
The economy has slowed to a pale shadow of its growth in recent years; inflation is high, the currency is declining sharply against the dollar — but the expectations of Brazilians have rarely been higher, feeding broad intolerance with corruption, bad schools and other government failings.
a sharply focused essay
Jones, the centre forward, started the game sharply.
Walters tried a long range shot in the third minute as he opened the game sharply, linking well with Robbie Keane, but goalkeeper Sergei Pareiko gathered the ball with ease.
When I asked her about her husband, she replied sharply that she had not seen him for several months.
Before long Tinette stuck her head round the door, and said sharply, 'You're to go to the study.'
He was sharply dressed in an expensive suit.
Turn sharply to the right.
The last 61 miles of the journey, from Kongsberg to Oslo, are through much less mountainous country. The railway curves sharply away from the Lågan^([sic]), and descends steadily, and in places steeply, past the head of Lake Fiskerumvatn to Hokksund, where the connecting line to the Bergen-Oslo Railway at Hønefoss diverges.
The road descends sharply.
His old war wound twinged sharply.
Peter, after the manner of man at the breakfast table, had allowed half his kedgeree to get cold and was sniggering over a letter. Sophia looked at him sharply. The only letter she had received was from her mother. Sophia's mother was not a humourist.
The wealth of this small country contrasts sharply with that of its neighbours.
Hynes is careful to direct the credit to his paymasters in the Scottish Government, whose ambitions for rail contrast increasingly sharply with those in Westminster.
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