sharp as a tack in a sentence
Examples
- And Zeidler _ learned, courteous, still sharp as a tack _ is mulling the question that may keep political scientists busy for the next generation:
- While Child's French bread is still sharp as a tack, her Chicken Melon scares the children, and her aspic has lost the spring in its step.
- "What makes one neighbor, who is 75, stay sharp as a tack whereas another neighbor, who is 60, forgets everything ? " he asked.
- "A few years ago, her memory was as sharp as a tack . . . . I've never had so many worries in my life ."
- "He was a very vigorous man, intellectually sharp as a tack and obviously one of America's pre-eminent presidential historians and adviser to presidents,"
- I don't know what Parkinson's ( Disease ) has taken from the poor kid, but let me tell you he's sharp as a tack ."
- At 103, she's got all her own teeth, doesn't need glasses to read the newspaper-including the stock pages-and has a memory and wit as sharp as a tack.
- The next year Dunham appeared in the Paramount musical film " Star Spangled Rhythm " ( 1942 ) in a specialty number, " Sharp as a Tack, " with Eddie " Rochester " Anderson.
- Scott Wilkinson of AVS was similarly impressed by the visual effects ( though he did not enjoy the movie itself ) : " Even sitting too far away, the movie itself looked gorgeous sharp as a tack with beautiful colors.
- Rochelle Mallen, a homemaker in Encino, felt it necessary to hire a full-time live-in caregiver for her 97-year-old father, David, even though he is mobile and sharp as a tack.