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Example sentences for "sharps"

Lexicographically close words:
sharpie; sharping; sharply; sharpness; sharpnesse; sharpshooter; sharpshooters; sharpshooting; shatter; shattered
  1. So, 't was distance altered Sharps to flats?

  2. He whirls on them sharps like a mountain lion.

  3. The yell the Jedge emits as he makes his little hole in the Cumberland is the first news them kyard sharps gets that they're afloat a whole lot.

  4. This bein' what you--all church sharps calls moral is somewhat a matter of health, an' likewise the way you feels.

  5. Can't you-all see them sharps is skinnin' you?

  6. After the mathematical sharps had finished, what are known as the word painters and grainers became busy.

  7. But the wise weather sharps who know this region sniffed the air and said: "Weather breeder!

  8. The law sharps are always hankering to catch a poor cuss who is trying to navigate these waters and suit the inspectors and the owners at the same time," admitted the master of the tug.

  9. I suppose Mr. Sharps thought that a great deal.

  10. Sammy described him by saying that "Mr. Sharps was not for-giving but he was for-getting.

  11. Mr. Sharps really could not afford to throw off a cent.

  12. I chatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles, I bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles.

  13. And when the Sharps attempt to run the gauntlet of expensive linen stationery (the higher the price, the higher the ridges), they get held up at every cable crossing.

  14. But it's possible that you are wondering what May have happened to Farmer Brown, And the old gray crock of Isonomy stock Who was backed by the sharps from town.

  15. Ah, Farmer Brown, the sharps from town, Have read your simple smile!

  16. The Sharps did not employ a chauffeur, but their general man knew how to run the car, and he was now engaged in taking the cars to a spot well off the road.

  17. The Sharps man came up, and was seated with Jim and Bill.

  18. The visitors quickly explained that, besides the Bentley touring car, that of the Sharps was being used on this expedition, Susie Sharp being one of the girls of the party.

  19. Alla Capella, Church-Musick where the Flats and Sharps are not mark'd.

  20. Where Flats or Sharps are marked at the Cliff, the Rule is, if one Flat, That is Fa; if more Flats, the last.

  21. One who can tell you offhand how many sharps are in the key of C major.

  22. Aiming for the first and second C's above the staff, he accidentally strikes the C sharps instead and has to transpose three measures to get back into the key.

  23. They are mad in Sharps factory Connetticot in a place called Hartford.

  24. The practical band man expresses the substance of this table tersely by saying, "subtract 3 sharps or 2 flats.

  25. To the Editor: I am very sorry for the gentleman who writes your Sharps and Flats, for I know what it is to lose a little dog.

  26. Field finally traced it to its source through persistent letters written to himself in his "Sharps and Flats" column in the Chicago Record.

  27. Stone, the title of the column which Field established when he came to the Chicago Morning News was borrowed from the name of a play, "Sharps and Flats," written by Clay M.

  28. Mr. Crane suffered from the same digestive troubles that confined Florence to terrapin and champagne and Field to coffee and pies, and so the state of his health was a constant source of paragraphic sympathy in "Sharps and Flats.

  29. And it is more likely, as it is more gratifying, to believe that he caught his famous caption (Sharps and Flats) from a paraphrase of his favorite classic poet than from the play bill of a modern and ephemeral farce.

  30. Phillips Francis's translation of the eighth of the first book of Horatian Satires: Not to be tedious or repeat How Flats and Sharps in concert meet.

  31. Crane, was one of Field's favorites, and the one with whose name he took the greatest liberties in his column of "Sharps and Flats.

  32. They are a passel of condemned theorists, and they want someone else to take sight over a cannon at an approaching tornado, while the sharps look through a peep-hole and see how it is going to work.

  33. If a tornado came up, you would find these cannon sharps in a cellar somewhere.

  34. Edmonds had with him a couple of Sharps carbines he had repaired for other members of the battalion and was carrying to return to the owners.

  35. His letters to his wife told of his early military experiences--his pleasure at receiving one of the fine new Sharps carbines which Captain Jones had wangled for his company, and, later, a Colt .

  36. Distance has altered the sharps to flats; the missing bar was not due to "kissing interruption," but to a blunder in the playing.

  37. C Major is what may be called the natural scale, having no sharps or flats in its signature.

  38. A Minor, with A (a third below C) for its keynote, has the same signature, but sharps are introduced for the formation of correct intervals.

  39. And with the Sharps and Flats of my Autumn, not only was there the play of cloud-effects in the sky, but out of the ground crops were to be seen rising.

  40. Sharps and Flats Sharps and Flats is a serenade from the streets in front of the dwelling of man, a plea to be allowed an entry and a place within that house of mystery.

  41. An Intervening Period Between the Pictures and Songs and the Sharps and Flats, a child's magazine called the Balaka sprang up and ended its brief days like an annual plant.

  42. I was then writing the poems which came to be published in the volume entitled Kadi o Komal, Sharps and Flats.

  43. The sharps and flats were about two and a half inches above the diatonic keys, and had a fall of about one and a quarter inches.

  44. Sharps are not found among gravel-diggers or stone-breakers; we may go further--seldom amongst artisans or mechanics of any description.

  45. Although immediately upon getting back Field resumed his daily grind of "Sharps and Flats" for the Chicago Record, his paragraphs showed more and more the effects of his reading and his withdrawal from the activities and associations of men.

  46. The first instalment of this story appeared in "Sharps and Flats" on May 15th.

  47. The first one has the peculiar interest of being the initial paragraph in "Sharps and Flats.

  48. Co-la-te-ral is the word the big business sharps yer about call 'em.

  49. They waz counterfeits got up by them Dutch supercargo sharps for dealin' with the Injins and cannibals and South Sea heathens ez bows down to wood and stone.

  50. Sorry to have the game broken up in such a way, but these sharps get in everywhere.

  51. The other three men were probably professional card sharps masquerading under the guise of men about town.


  52. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sharps" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.