Sentence examples for a too sharp from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a too sharp" is not correct in standard written English.
The correct form would typically be "too sharp" without the article "a."
Example: "The knife is too sharp for me to handle safely."
Alternatives: "excessively sharp" or "overly sharp."

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Heart of romaine dressed with a too sharp zinfandel and blue cheese vinaigrette, flanked by a watery stewed plum tomato, was an eyebrow-raising $12.

Don't use a too dull pencil or a too sharp one, if it's too dull the picture will look flat, and if it's too sharp the pencil will break.

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What interests me about Paul is that he suffers from a too-sharp awareness — he knows just what ails him — and yet he can't control his behavior.

What interests me about Paul is that he suffers from a too-sharp awareness he knows just what ails him and yet he can't control his behavior.

Thanks, sometimes, to their own actions and to a media that love a too-sharp stiletto heel, women MPs are often portrayed as Lady Macbeth types, yet here they were telling me about the ordinary stuff: their bills, their battles to find schools for their displaced children, their lonely menfolk.

Some years ago, my husband cut his finger on a too-sharp knife while peeling a cucumber, and no matter what he tried, he couldn't stop the bleeding.

Critics of his position included his colleague on the Second Circuit, Jerome Frank, who wrote: "[I]t seems to me that here, most uncharacteristically, Judge Hand indulges in a judgement far too sweeping, one which rests on a too-sharp either-or, all or nothing, dichotomy.... Obviously the courts cannot do the whole job.

After a tombstone-etched director's credit, we see the first of many incomplete acts, and what could be viewed as a a ham-fisted potshot at the end of a species' specious Empire: a white stretch limo, stuck, its very length choking a too-sharp curve in a castle road, its newlywed passengers forced to abandon their gilded chariot.

Fine tune using your voice as a chromatic pitch pipe; play a few tunes and if the faster pitches on a string are a little too sharp, lengthen string length slightly at bridge.

But Radwanska reached it with a scoop forehand, sending the ball low across the net, a shot too sharp for Burdette to make her half-volley reply successfully.

The bleeding edge can sometimes be just a little too sharp.

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