Sentence examples for began with a sharp from inspiring English sources

The week began with a sharp advance as investors awaited the Federal Reserve's decision on interest rates.

For the Giants, the game began with a sharp but ultimately unproductive drive, one that concluded with a mistake that seemed a bad omen.

The race began with a sharp whistle, starting the cyclists on the first of 16 laps around a three-quarter-mile course running in a rough rectangle along Columbia, Van Dyke and Richards Streets.

He began with a sharp response to comments Mr. Romney made earlier in the day, in which he said he would focus his policies on the middle class because the poor were taken care of by a safety net of government programs.

Stephen Colbert began with a sharp, energetic showman's monologue, which included nifty jabs such as when he listed Bill Maher as one of the audience's black performers, then added, "I assume he's black, because he's so comfortable about using the N-word".

The glimmer that galvanized the PLANET and GMAN teams began with a sharp spike around 19 June, followed by a slow rise in brightness and--by some accounts--a strange, double-humped peak around 24 July before a final dimming.

The second half began with a sharper-looking Everton swarming around the Burnley penalty area in search of an equaliser.

Walter Mosley's anomalous new novel begins with a sharp little jolt.

Typically, the shock waves from nuclear explosions begin with a sharp spike as earth and rock are compressed violently.

The park walk begins with a sharp right turn at the handsome Stuyvesant High School, whose new home was completed in 1992.

The chapter on AIDS begins with a sharp note of criticism: an accusation that the medical establishment is acting "in passive connivance with the homosexual lobby".