sharp pencil in a sentence

Examples

1. The sharp pencil has cut into the family's life, because the farm is everything.
2. "And walking home at night, I hold a sharp pencil " as a weapon.
3. You have a lot of sharp pencils on Wall Street cooking up transactions to achieve a specific result.
4. "If you put a sharp pencil to some of the numbers, Qualcomm's stock looks pretty rich ."
5. He brought a sharp pencil to the job, cutting jobs by the hundreds and raising profits at the company's newspapers.
6. Long ago, in a galaxy far away, investors examined companies'financial statements with a sharp pencil and a gimlet eye.
7. Better to poll investment professionals famous for their skepticism, people who know how to take a sharp pencil to corporate financial statements.
8. They'll take a very sharp pencil when taking a look this spring at next year's Christmas season ."
9. Rodriguez's clothes, in a palette of white and black, were breathtakingly sexy, with sharp pencil-skirted dresses.
10. "There's a lot of real hard work that has to be done with some real sharp pencils,"