as sharp as a sword

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

The poet declares that he has come to bear witness that "those who are as sharp as a sword" have not lost their resolve.

Everything was as sharp as a knife.

He is as sharp as a tack.

"She was as sharp as a tack.

That's according to Dan Meyer, president of the Sword Swallowers Association International (SSAI), and a guy as sharp as his swords.

We all possess what the prophet Isaiah called mouths as sharp as swords.

And if you want to take your sword back home, you may need it to be as sharp as possible to cut through all the red tape of bringing a lethal weapon on a plane.

Instinctively I thought, 'She is comparing me to Rebecca'; and sharp as a sword the shadow came between us".

Make weapons out of sticks, like using a sharp stick as a sword or spear.

"He is as razor sharp as a Marine sword and as polished as one too," Winston said.

But he had become a bookworm once he and his mother moved up to Chicago, reading all day at school and in his first job at the old Lakeview Press, until his mind was "sharp as a Toledo sword".