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Discover LudwigThe 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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