sharp-cornered
Example Sentences
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I pull forward one of my two blank cards and write in big block letters an unbendable, sharp-cornered David-word: RULE.
From "Rules" by Cynthia Lord
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My father held fast to the sharp-cornered saint and prophet, though somewhat excoriated in the association.
From The Last Leaf Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America and Europe by James Kendall Hosmer
A sharp-cornered tobacco-tin was not the thing to have hit him with anyhow.
From Marge Askinforit by Barry Pain
Their oars were lancet-shaped as far as the middle, and had a protruding sharp-cornered point.
From In the Andamans and Nicobars The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin" by C. Boden Kloss
"I can read any kind of plain writing like they do in school," said Richard, "but not this sharp-cornered kind where the m's and u's are alike, and all the tails are pointed."
From Georgina of the Rainbows by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston