sharper

Example Sentences

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The Bournemouth youngster is still raw, still searching for consistency with his final ball, but he looked sharper here.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026

Those crypto-specific pressures have come into sharper focus after Strategy sold a small amount of bitcoin earlier this week.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 5, 2026

Like most New Yorkers, Mamdani has been swept up in Knicks mania, even as the playoffs have brought some of the cost-of-living themes he campaigned on into sharper focus.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026

Compared with her trip to China, Cheng can expect "far less pomp and far sharper questions" in the United States, said Ryan Hass, an expert on China and Taiwan at the Washington-based Brookings Institution.

From Barron's • Jun. 1, 2026

A woman with hands like claws, mottled and dangerous, with wide eyes blank and filled with moonlight, and teeth sharper than even the sharpest of her soon-to-be-husband’s knives.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny