pointed
Example Sentences
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As in “The Country of the Pointed Firs,” the novel is about the arrival of a worldly interloper to a remote, pastoral community.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
Pointed questions from members continued after the union opened voting at around 3 p.m.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 13, 2022
Pointed bullets and revolver pistols were not invented until the 1830s; the Spencer repeating rifle, the technological edge that helped the Union win the Civil War, was not designed until 1860.
From Washington Post • Jun. 21, 2022
Pointed lines of dialogue, and in particular an interview with one of his grandchildren for a school project, unveil the outdated views on mental health and masculinity that inform Meir’s inability to communicate.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2022
Pointed to the streets I would pass: “Forty-Fifth, Forty-Sixth, Forty-Seventh...just stay on this street and count up when you going to school and down when you coming home and you’ll be all right,” he said.
From "Finding Langston" by Lesa Cline-Ransome
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