sharp pencil in a sentence

Examples

1. Draw the outline of the mortise onto the edge of the door with a sharp pencil then use the chisel to cut around this outline by tapping it with a mallet to make vertical cuts down into the wood.
2. In a year and a half running Merrill's brokerage business, O'Neal has burnished his reputation as a manager with a sharp pencil by eliminating more than 2, 000 jobs and cutting other expenses.
3. And he agreed to pay with Berkshire stock even though less than four months earlier he had put a sharp pencil to all his previous stock-only acquisitions over the years and found that they had actually lost money.
4. She asked many questions and then like a wizard, she produced a long and sharp pencil, did some figuring, and finally came up with an estimate : $ 65 a place setting, not including serving pieces.
5. "I think it would have been offensive to say, ` I'm on his team and this is my first disagreement and I'm sticking him in the ear with a sharp pencil, "'
6. :Depending on the router ( mine, for example, is a Belkin ) you could " hard reset " the router by pressing the tiny button on the back with a pin, sharp pencil, or other pointed object.
7. "We haven't put a sharp pencil to it yet, but when the deal was struck, both sides'negotiating committees agreed that it was a balanced agreement, no matter how the dollars worked out ."
8. You bring a sharp pencil of analysis, together with the right mix of people : private sector, government, academic, civil society, financiers; because we need all hands on deck if we are going to solve the problem.
9. Taking a sharp pencil to Amazon's balance sheet, Suria assessed the company's ability to finance its operations with what is known as working capital, or the difference between Amazon's near-term liabilities and its relatively liquid assets.
10. "When you go through a tough financial period like this, it forces everyone to get out a sharp pencil, " said James H . Gately, managing director of Vanguard's Direct Investor Services Group, which handles individual investors'accounts.