Example sentences of "sharp as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a scary journey , scrabbling over that slippery great red tongue and passing through a great hall of teeth and palate , each pillar taller than she was and as sharp as a knife . |
| 2 | ‘ Come along , you two , ’ Sir says , sharp as a needle . |
| 3 | His ears were sharp as a jackal 's and he could spot the tracks of a hippo from an extraordinary distance . |
| 4 | Hard and sharp as a flint , from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire ; secret , and self-contained , and solitary as an oyster . ’ |
| 5 | He was a tallish man with a mind as sharp as a razor . |
| 6 | Clever as hell , yes ; sharp as a needle , yes ; knowing most answers to given problems , yes . |
| 7 | ‘ Sharp as a tack , shipmates . |
| 8 | On the album I make the comment that somebody had asked me the same question and I said , ‘ Yep , my left hand 's doing good , right hand 's doing alright , my mind 's as sharp as a tack . |
| 9 | My left hand 's doing good , right hand 's doing alright , my mind 's as sharp as a tack . |
| 10 | Dan comments ‘ Paceley was as sharp as a tack and super dependable . |
| 11 | Enya , as ever , is dressed in a simple but elegant style , straight and sturdy as young reed and sharp as a blade of grass . |
| 12 | It 's sharp as a razor , a real hunting knife , but if you keep the sheath on you can hold it a bit . |
| 13 | The sense of disappointment was as sharp as a blow , painful out of all proportion , so much so that for a moment I was almost angry with him for not being there . |
| 14 | Hard and sharp as a meteorite , this carbonized giant clam finally yielded to saws and machetes , razor blades and tweezers . |
| 15 | He was fluent , learned , a man of books , and yet , she had heard him with her father on small points , as sharp as a tinker … too many false trails , too many different scents … as if he , too , were puzzling over his path … |
| 16 | In fact he was as sharp as a man half his age . |
| 17 | It was about eight inches long , double edged and as sharp as a razor . |
| 18 | She was glad she had the stone , when he came into the byre ; she was waiting for him as he had asked her to , she had made her way across the orchard in the fresh blue morning and let herself in through the wooden door by lifting it off its hinges , since the bolt had rusted fast long ago , and she had looked up at the full moon of the sky in the chimney hole at the centre of the round shelter 's roof , and with her stone which was sharp as a shearing knife with a bright , honed blade the marks of the whetstone were still visible in pale striations like scouring tracks — she scraped her name into one of the stones on the interior , as many others had done before her , in tall shapely capitals , the only letters she knew . |
| 19 | Cute as lace pants , sharp as a stiletto and hungry as a Bengal tiger . |
| 20 | Steel threaded through her muscles , and her senses became as sharp as a cat 's . |
| 21 | He 'd thought he 'd die himself , he said when they came to the white iron gate , he 'd thought he 'd die when he 'd heard the woman 's scream , sharp as a blade above the whine of the wind and the rain . |
| 22 | At twenty to seven I breeze into the pub feeling spruced up and sharp as a Porsche purring from a 12000-mile service . |
| 23 | In fact , we all knew he was sharp , sharp as a carving knife . |
| 24 | She was so sweet and funny , sharp as a tack and yet never unkind . |
| 25 | The devilish smile , oblique and sharp as a scar , had come back to the gaunt face . |
| 26 | The animal seemed to understand Sir John 's words for it lunged towards him with a strangled growl ; its top lip curled , showing teeth as sharp as a row of daggers . |
| 27 | ‘ There 's no danger , ’ he translated , his eyes on the soothsayer 's hands , ‘ but the boar that we want is as fast as the wind and as sharp as an eagle . ’ |
| 28 | Together , under Caroline Paterson 's skilled direction , the company finds an idiom for a humour which is as sharp as an arrowhead and as hard as flint , and a style for an emotion which is shaped from the very suppression and denial of feeling . |
| 29 | While this downswing will not be as sharp as the previous downturn ( in 1979-81 ) , not least given the very much lower level of inflation that we now have , a dull 1989 is bound to be followed by a difficult 1990 . ’ |
| 30 | The night air was sharp as the rector crossed the green a little later . |