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Example sentences for "trenchantly"

Lexicographically close words:
tremulousness; tren; trenails; trench; trenchant; trenched; trencher; trenchers; trenches; trenching
  1. The Dean trenchantly described the answer as cold, curt, callous, and heartless.

  2. With indignation he flew to his intrepid pen, and dealt as trenchantly with Ward as Ward himself had dealt trenchantly with the reformers and all others whom he found planted in his dialectic way.

  3. The second was missionary propaganda, the utilization of the same weapon which the enemy so trenchantly wielded--that of persuasion.

  4. Since Alfred's engagement, Mrs. Yellam had met Mr. Broomfield, and summed him up trenchantly as half a man.

  5. The Squire and Davenant had appealed trenchantly for volunteers, using the time-worn arguments of Authority and believing sincerely enough that deaf ears might hear their message if it were shouted loud enough.

  6. The shrewdest diplomatist of the age had already divined her aims, which he thus trenchantly summed up: "The Empress only waits to see Austria and Prussia committed in France, to overturn everything in Poland.

  7. Paine trenchantly attacked Burke's claim that no people, not even our own, had an inherent right to choose its own ruler, and that the Revolution Settlement of 1688 was binding for ever.

  8. He wanted to get away out of the dingy room; its rickety table and chairs, its two vulgar vases on the stained mantel, its gross upholstery, seemed too trenchantly sordid in the strong August sun.


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