How to Use razor-sharp in a Sentence
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Stay ahead of the tech game and keep your knowledge razor-sharp!
—Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 13 July 2023
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Due to its very fine-grain and 16° bevel, it can be honed to a razor-sharp edge.
—Cosmo Genova, Field & Stream, 3 May 2023
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Hecklers didn’t stand a chance against Cole’s razor-sharp wit.
—oregonlive, 23 Mar. 2023
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At the same show, Lily Allen showed off a new pink hue through her graphic bob cut (complete with razor-sharp fringe).
—Hannah Coates, Vogue, 27 Sep. 2023
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The tops of the hedges are razor-sharp and curve this way and that, fitting into one another like a puzzle.
—Ingrid Rojas Contreras, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2023
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This slim, long mini-grater is razor-sharp with holes that grate or zest foods into fine pieces.
—Belle Duchene, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Feb. 2024
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Wolverine’s room is covered in claw marks on the walls, no doubt caused by some razor-sharp, adamantium rage.
—Jordan Moreau, Variety, 3 May 2024
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The foot-and-a-half long shark latches onto prey with suction lips, digs in with its razor-sharp teeth, and spins its body to gouge out a plug of flesh.
—Steven Hill, Field & Stream, 26 July 2023
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Pointy, razor-sharp body parts are a fairly common form of defense among fish.
—Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 24 May 2023
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The eel was more than three feet long, weighed at least 15 pounds and was writhing wildly, snapping its backward-curving, razor-sharp teeth.
—Mark Jenkins, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
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When bolted down, the defective E-nut caused razor-sharp, up to three inch slivers to fall on the bundles of wires and on the surfaces below.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 24 Apr. 2024
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Lenker is 31 now, but those memories are still razor-sharp, and her feelings about them just as intense.
—Leah Lu, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2024
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Coleman’s razor-sharp vibrato rattles the melody to its core.
—Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 18 Feb. 2024
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Both feature sharp, sloping, elongated heads that taper to a pointed jaw; each has a mouth full of razor-sharp teeth.
—Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 19 July 2023
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Tapping in to this decade’s hottest hairstyle, Cruz’s razor-sharp bob was chopped to sit about an inch below her jawline, and subsequently framed her face in all the right ways.
—Hannah Coates, Vogue, 5 Mar. 2024
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But Thursday’s account was notably less toothy and hot than that recording, which hangs razor-sharp scare quotes at either end of the symphony.
—Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024
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Cancer June 21-July 22 Your attention is about to get razor-sharp.
—Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 18 Mar. 2023
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But although their subject matter was still razor-sharp, the production feels too similar to what else was going on in hip-hop at the time.
—Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 3 Mar. 2023
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The razor-sharp stainless steel blades are designed to stand up to all sorts of chopping, slicing, and dicing without chipping or breaking.
—Savannah Smith, Rolling Stone, 9 July 2024
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Afterparty is a razor-sharp romp about two college kids trying to outdrink the devil in hell.
—Megan Farokhmanesh, WIRED, 19 July 2023
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The fearless creatures are highly intelligent, with razor-sharp teeth, hooked claws, and the ability to sprint at 25 mph.
—Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 23 Apr. 2023
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Rehearsing with so much ice called for razor-sharp time management.
—Erik Piepenburg, New York Times, 12 June 2024
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Bad Bunny is a hair chameleon who has experimented with numerous bold styles, from a neon green buzz to burr cuts with razor-sharp edges.
—Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 21 Oct. 2023
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Jacob-Perkins cut razor-sharp lines with her cello over scrubby brushstrokes of strings, hard plucks of harp and tensely bowed xylophone bars.
—Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2024
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The director’s editing (as always, billing himself as Mary Ann Bernard) also is razor-sharp.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Jan. 2024
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Women and children could be seen weaving through razor-sharp concertina wire to claim asylum.
—Omar Villafranca, CBS News, 20 Dec. 2023
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Dosch owns the stage and takes her own sweet time to deliver intelligent material that is razor-sharp.
—Seven Graham, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2023
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Cheap hatchets can lose an edge quickly after chopping through knots and tough branches, but this Gerber’s blade comes razor-sharp from the factory and handles them like a champ.
—Alice Bennett, Travel + Leisure, 27 Nov. 2023
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The album’s vocals, music and production equal his always razor-sharp lyrics.
—Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 10 June 2023
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Despite straddling the line between past successes and future challenges, Diablo IV proves once again that the march of time has done little to dull the franchise’s razor-sharp fangs.
—Brittany Vincent, Rolling Stone, 31 May 2023
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