Sentence examples for sharp ends from inspiring English sources

They locked tusks or used the tusks' sharp ends to poke one another in the hindquarters.

The knot design with sharp ends was inspired by the twists and complications of Bond's love life, Mr. Webster said.

An extinct beach boat is the Yarmouth beach yawl, a long, narrow, lapstrake double-ender with sharp ends, built for salvage work and rigged with two or three lugsails and a jib.

That said, like Yorkshire, they have the sharpest of sharp ends to the season coming up, still alive in both one-day competitions and with promotion still an outside possibility in the Championship.

There is little difference between wild pigs, or boars, and domestic swine, though the tusklike teeth of domestic pigs are not as developed as the tusks of their wild kin, who use the sharp ends to forage for roots and as a defensive weapon.

My mum taught him how to twist them at the stem gently, so as not to pull on the whole plant, and how to embrace the sharp ends of the prickles on his soft palms: a quick polish and the spikes come off, leaving it safe for nibbling with abandon.

And being at the sharp end is proving painful.

"He gets the sharp end of my tongue.

The police are left at the sharp end.

There was no change at the sharp end after that.

Frayed a bit as the game reached the sharp end.