Sample sentences for TRENCHANT

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clear, strong, and sharply focused — especially of criticism

Her most trenchant criticism was aimed at the President.

She surprised everyone with an especially trenchant argument.
trenchant distinctions between right and wrong
Many timid remonstrances had she uttered to George in behalf of her brother, but the former in his trenchant way cut these entreaties short.
Thackeray, William Makepeace -- Vanity Fair
I found their simple scale of honour was based mainly on the capacity for inflicting trenchant wounds.
Wells, H.G. -- The Island of Doctor Moreau
My sister had a trenchant way of cutting our bread-and-butter for us, that never varied.
Dickens, Charles -- Great Expectations
But once he found in a fold of the matting a half-smoked cigar, and this he ground beneath his heel with a green and trenchant oath.
Henry, O. -- The Four Million
Make soft thy trenchant sword; for those milk paps
Shakespeare, William -- The Life of Timon of Athens
He has built flats on its site, his motor-cars grow swifter, his exposures of Socialism more trenchant.
Forster, E. M. -- Howards End
He heard these words in his father's trenchant voice, and trembled, and then dodged the thought.
Stevenson, Robert Louis -- Tales and Fantasies
He could fancy their headlines, imagine even their trenchant paragraphs.
Oppenheim, E. Phillips -- The Kingdom of the Blind
The second lycanthrope made a trenchant point.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Ashes
The trenchant divisions between right and wrong, honest and dishonest, respectable and the reverse, had left so little scope for the unforeseen.
Edith Wharton -- The Age of Innocence
I found their simple scale of honour was based mainly on the capacity for inflicting trenchant wounds.
H.G. Wells -- The Island of Dr. Moreau
Silence followed the scout's trenchant speech.
Zane Grey -- The Thundering Herd
A second less and the trenchant blade had shorn through his heart.
Bram Stoker -- Dracula
But they also embodied a trenchant 'social criticism.'
Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
When Castleton finished his narrative there was a trenchant silence.
Zane Grey -- The Light of Western Stars
Knell had cut out with the trenchant call, and stood ready.
Zane Grey -- The Lone Star Ranger
There was a trenchant, focused look to his eyes, as if a notion or thought had taken a profound hold over him and he was useless before it.
Chang-rae Lee -- A Gesture Life

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