A thought that had been in the archives of his mind for many months came sharply into relief: of all human beings alive, the scientists were the only ones who retained imagination, ideals, and a sincere interest in the larger world.
Finding the coast clear (which after all slightly disappointed her) she walked sharply into another street, where she hailed a passing hansom, and was driven to Lincoln's Inn Fields.
She spoke near to the door, and with her last wordsharply turned the key.
If anybody asks me how I got the scratches--" The girl looked sharply at him.
He seemed irritated at seeing her, and rebuked his servantsharply for his ill-advised zeal.
When he returned he could not avoid stopping half way to admire the elegant and simple silhouette of the young woman, defined sharply against the blackness of the wood, her fine countenance slightly illuminated by the firelight.
Unfortunately, right at the outset of this new campaign, General McClellan's incapacity and want of candor once more became sharply evident.
Having taken his seat in Congress, Senator Brown of Mississippi, toward the close of the short session, catechized him sharply on this point.
She got up sharply at length and began with quivering speed to undress, not daring to linger lest she should have to meet again the straight, unsparing scrutiny of those terribly bright eyes.
Maud went to it and found that the ground sloped sharply away from this side of the house, necessitating a flight of several steps.
The next instant she turned sharply on her side, aware of a furtive movement in the room.
The hot colour rushed to Maud's face; she turned sharply aside.
A dark young man, with absolutely black eyes and a high, dominant forehead, turned sharply from a rapt contemplation of Saltash's Captured Angel, and bowed automatically to Maud.
She recovered herself sharply with a gasp of dismay, and paused to try to discern more clearly the winding of the way.
He turned sharply and saw Sam Vickers' good-humoured countenance looking up at him.
Her eyelids quivered sharply at the rough allusion, but she did not raise them.
She started sharply at his touch, but gave in at once, suffering him to draw the work from her hands.
Yes," sharply exclaimed Mr. Foster: "we must have them come.
Once, as they were driving through Ploumar, some obscure and drunken impulse caused him to pull up sharply opposite the church.
The leader, after waiting for a while, said something sharply to Makola, who shook his head.
The invalid looked sharply at Pierre, and tremblingly said: "Who called me?
Instead of giving the virago an answer, Fanfaro lookedsharply at her.
The sharply curved nose and the large mouth with dazzling teeth, the full blond hair, and the broad, muscular shoulders, were on a colossal scale.
We only had time to plunge at a curtain and unbuckle and unbutton part of it in an awkward and hindering flurry, when our whip cracked sharply overhead, and we went rumbling and thundering away, down a mountain "grade.
Osman and Renaud peer out of a port-hole after me as we walk along the track of gray earth shut in by the uninterrupted border of sorghos and by the river, the wind blowing sharply all the while.
He spoke sharply to his opponent before playing his second, and then sliced a spoon shot deep into the rough.
He realised this, too, and tried to make up for it by lunging desperately at the ball; but as the club-face went through he jerked up his head and turned it sharply to the left.
Something hard in the buckskin pouch struck her sharply as it swung.
Has science dug so sharply around the roots of these old beliefs that they are bound to decay?
In the field of domestic architecture these dramatic contrasts are less evident, less sharply marked.
The view of our pre-war architecture thus sketchily presented is sure to be sharply challenged in certain quarters, but unfortunately for us all this is no mere matter of opinion, it is a matter of fact.
She rose suddenly to her feet and shut the lid down sharply upon the key-board.
He drew his breath sharply and looked out to sea, as many a heart-broken man has looked across that fair water since woman first learned that men's hearts could break.
Not that he has much to do as he lies there on his six-foot deck that narrows away so sharply to the stern.
Ruggiero looked up sharply and he felt his hands shaking.
Then, turningsharply to her companion, 'He wants votes!
Professor Knoblock did not look at her as she entered the Literature class room; he was taking two of the boys sharply to task for never being able to recite.
He can't do all that he would, his father looks after him too sharply for that.
Then looking sharply at the two old bailiffs, he said very emphatically: "I have both seen him and spoken to him.
In this message the prophet sharply reproves the people for their indifference to the cause of God's house and their selfish devotion to their own private interests, which have brought upon them the divine rebuke.
This is to be understood as referring not to the spirit manifested by Job, which God had sharply rebuked, but rather to the ground taken by him in respect to God's dealings with men.
Then, like a flash, as he nears the ground, he darts sharply out of sight and the song is over.
From this landing place a steep road, hewn with untold labour at some ancient day, slanted sharply upward and toward the head of the cove along the face of the rocks, which were somewhat less steep on this side than across the water.
That churl must have kicked your horse sharply to make him plunge as he did.
And presently the track led me nearer to the sound of the sea, and at last bent sharply to the right and began to go downhill, while the sound of the bell grew plainer above the roar of nearer breakers yet.
We must also find out the speed of the shutter required to take the object in motion, so that it will appear as sharply defined as possible under the circumstances.
Your friend will then adjust the camera so that the fish just comes under your hand, focuses, places a very small stop on, so as to get everything sharply defined, and makes the necessary exposure.
The boy looked up sharply at Riddell, who saw that he had made a point, and followed it up.
Fairbairn rowed on a stroke or two without apparently noticing it, then turning sharply round in the middle of a stroke he discovered the reason.
Then came another ball, which the same player turned off sharply into the slips.
He shouted for the chair's attention, but Lesseur brought the gavel down sharply once, and his voice rang over the speakers.
He spotted a billboard one man was wearing, and his eyes focusedsharply on it.
Within half a mile of the Medina rancho Starr saw where an automobile had swerved sharply off the trail and had taken to the hard-packed sand of a dry arroyo that meandered barrenly off to the southeast.
Since her hands moved with the swing of her shoulders, Rabbit turned sharply and faced the way she was looking, startled, displeased, but obedient.
She even called outsharply that he was limping with the wrong foot, and that he ought to tie a string around his lame ankle so he could remember which one it was.
Starr went on unconcernedly whistling under his breath, but at the corner he turned sharply to the left, and in turning he flicked a glance back at the fellow.
Just here in her thoughts Holman Sommers faded, and Starr's lean, whimsical face came out sharply defined before her mental vision.
Then she told me sharply not to mind about her arrangements, and that she had no need of my charity.
It was this way: Of course I spoke a bitsharply to those scatter-brained girls, and they answered me back in a way it makes my blood boil to think about.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sharply" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: abruptly; bitterly; closely; curtly; harshly; intently; keenly; sharp; sharply; shortly
