Sentence examples for sharp spur from inspiring English sources

Finfoots have a sharp spur of uncertain function at the bend of the wing.

It takes a sharp spur and a clanging cowbell to get most of them moving, and even then they're a pretty smooth, well-cushioned ride.

Sure, it doesn't have bright flowers or sharp spurs all over it, but at least a Rock won't appear totally fine for months and months and then one day just collapse in on itself in an unnecessarily melodramatic way, despite the fact that you're watering it RIGHT NOW.

The earliest changes seen are sharp spurring at the articular/non-articular junction on the radial side of the scaphoid and at the radial styloid process tip, with loss of the normal rounded curvature of the radial styloid process (Fig. 8).

Children's most engulfing fear can be the sharpest spur to their imaginations.

Sir Peter is careful to keep Henry's evangelical enthusiasm in plain sight, though it is hard not to conclude that profits were the sharper spur.

And surely there will now be an even sharper spur for the radical action on the portfolio that we have been advocating.

Such cheerleading cloaks the sharpest spurs ever invented.

And when the time came, a master craftsman would fit the bird's legs with razor-sharp spurs and send it into a 50-foot square ring, to slash another similarly equipped cock, while village men bet on which bird would slaughter the other.

Sociable, though sometimes quarrelsome, birds, they bow to one another in courtship and when quarreling fight with sharp shin spurs.

Males often fight during the breeding season, inflicting wounds on each other with their sharp ankle spurs.