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Discover LudwigThe phrase "sharp knock" is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English
It is typically used to describe the sound of a loud and sudden knock or tapping on a door or object. Example: Sylvia heard a sharp knock on her door and quickly opened it to find her neighbor standing outside, soaking wet from the rain.
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The orchestra thumps out shuddering, dissonant chords that are like a sharp knock at the door.
A sharp knock to my knees and ankles produced not even the slightest tremor of reflex.
As the roster of dodgy accounting extends from Xerox to Global Crossing, investors' faith in American firms has taken a sharp knock.
That confidence seems recently to have taken a sharp knock, in part because America's economic recovery is producing so few jobs, but also, since the terrorist attack in Spain last week, because of renewed fears about security.
And shares in GSK took a sharp knock after a judge in Chicago unexpectedly ruled that a generic competitor to the company's best-selling anti-depressant drug, Paxil, did not infringe GSK's patent.
A sharp knock on the jaw could jolt that sinus, altering blood and oxygen flow by enough to generate a loss of consciousness.While they can't plan for it, fighters look to diffuse the impact of potential knockout punches by training hard.
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During subculture, cells were trypsinized with 0.05 % trypsin-EDTA solution 1X (Sigma-Aldrich Corp., St . Louis MO, USA) for 5 min at 37 °C, dislodged by a sharp knocking of the flasks during that period, washed, diluted to 10 ml with fresh complete medium, and 1 × 10 cells were seeded into 25 cm culture flasks (4 × 10 cells/cm).
A sharp, rhythmic knocking can be heard among the Saturday crowds in Eldon Square, one of the city's busiest intersections.
Let Rudy return to being Rudy, with the sharp corners knocked off by life's blows, and set his sights on the governor's mansion two years from now.
There were passages like horror-movie soundtracks, with phantom choirs and amorphous whispers; there were also sharp-focus knocks and thuds and a recurring elegiac three-note motif.
Crash manages to cross the river and, after avoiding contact with his razor-sharp toenails, knocks Ripper Roo out cold beside a waterfall after repeated TNT explosions, and successfully makes his way through the city and the temples.
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