Sentence examples for Sharp tack from inspiring English sources

She's a sharp tack".

And a sharp tack, and….

Later he makes a sculpture out of coat hangers ("Obstruction," 1920) and transforms an iron with the addition of sharp tacks ("Gift," 1921).

They are thin boards with sharp tacks sticking from them.

Use adhesives, such as mounting putty or rolled up tape, on the tails to avoid using sharp tacks.

However, in a development you feel the ship's designers ought to have foreseen, a larger-than-usual collision sends the onboard systems haywire, and up pops the hatch of the hibernation pod belonging to Jim Preston Prattt), a hunky engineer who is good with his hands but perhaps not the sharpest tack in the box.

Sure, the state has a not-the-sharpest-tack, even buffoon-ish governor, Earl Ray Tomblin, who toes the anti-regulatory conservative line, most recently advising West Virginians that they needed to make a "personal choice" whether to drink tap water despite its persistent "licorice" smell.

Wear work gloves while handling old and new tack strips as they are made of setting nails on one side and razor-sharp tacks on the other.

The Newfoundlander is sharp as tack and sociable, thrifty and hard-working, warm and generous.

They are sharp as tacks.

They have also bagged the striking American folkie Stephanie Dosen as ethereal backing singer, and for their part, Del Naja and co-leader Grant Marshall are as sharp as tacks when the time comes to menacingly whisper their vocals.