She would have liked to see whether a sharp word or two would have moved the silent Allison for a moment out of the dull, mechanical performance of her duty.
When they did so, a sharp word, like a sudden shot, brought them to their proper place again and set matters right between them.
He asked Sancroft's blessing, and got only a sharp word, and a black look.
A sharp wordor a cold look of the master sufficed to make the servant miserable during several days.
A few old men still living could remember times when a gentleman who was known at Whitehall to have let fall a sharp word against a court favourite would have been brought before the Privy Council and sent to the Tower.
She had told him that many years agone she had had a broth of a lad for a husband; but because of a sharp word or two across the fire, and the toss of a handful of furniture, he had left her, and she had seen no more of him.
When she heard his voice she looked up sharply, and added a sharp word also.
A sharp word, and the two upstanding camels moved forward, coming to a standstill as they felt the weight of their recumbent sister.
There was a sharp word of command bringing the animal to a standstill, then a throaty exclamation from somewhere in the long neck as she pitted her hereditary obstinacy against the man's will.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sharp word" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
