"sharply separated" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to indicate that two or more things are clearly distinguished from each other. For example, "The two halves of the city were sharply separated by a river."
Throughout the early modern period, creative philosophy was sharply separated from formal centres of learning.
Persons do not fall into sharply separated types, such as bright and dull, maladjusted and normal, introvert and extravert.
As the Stream turns northeastward at Cape Hatteras, it becomes a narrow, meandering current, though still sharply separated from the water on either side.
The ears are rudimentary; the upper body parts are whitish, but the lower parts, face, and legs are black the two colours sharply separated.
This evolved as Japan rapidly industrialized with sharply separated work forces for the relatively few large-scale, technologically advanced oligopolies on the one hand and for the millions of less secure small- and medium-size firms on the other hand.
The longer fibres of the medial collateral ligament are elevated subperiosteally or sharply separated from the insertion.
When Luntz talks about "the war," he does not draw a hard distinction between the quagmire in Iraq and Bush's war on terror, and this is one of the differences that now sharply separate the two parties in Washington.
Even Kalamazoo, with the offer of free college tuition, has not figured out how to overcome the nation's so-called achievement gap, which sharply separates the academic performance, and graduation rates, of urban black males from black females and whites of both sexes.
Reflection on what is said under the different heads will quickly establish that they are not sharply separate from one another, and, indeed, individual metaphysical writers sometimes invoke more than one of these phrases when asked to say what metaphysics is as, for example, the British Idealist F.H. Bradley does in the opening pages of his work Appearance and Reality (1893).
Proposals include sharply separating the people investigating cases from the committee that decides them.See articleThe World Trade Organisation opened an inquiry into allegations brought by the EU and America that accuse each other of illegally subsidising their premier aircraft-makers, Airbus and Boeing.
However, the 2-mm-thick dark fault gouge at the base of the interval exhibits planar upper and lower boundaries and sharply separates the intensely brecciated hemipelagic mudstone above from the unbroken hemipelagic mudstone and ash below (Figure 4b).
