How to Use sharp-eyed in a Sentence
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Bring a camo hat to conceal your face from sharp-eyed ducks.
—Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 3 June 2020
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But then, around 2 a.m., a sharp-eyed team member spies the tracks of a baby turtle in the dark and traces it back to a nest.
—Nina Burleigh, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
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His sharp-eyed takes won him a Pulitzer for criticism in 1988.
—Alex Williams, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2024
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The cat leaped out of the bag, though, when some sharp-eyed fans paused the film’s first trailer at the right second to see the actor’s blue visage.
—Tim Lammers, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
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But sharp-eyed fans have fixated on a very bizarre T-shirt for sale every night at the merch stand.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 2 July 2024
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The tone and point of view were lofty, sharp-eyed, seemingly impassive.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
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Meryl is a hardheaded Candide, a sharp-eyed Don Quixote.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2023
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But sharp-eyed and quick-fingered viewers who pause the video will see Swift and Kelce standing hand-in-hand at the base of the tree, bathed in its glowing green light.
—Lawrence Yee, Peoplemag, 20 Apr. 2024
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While play continued, Rossi popped the bonus puck between goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy’s skates for what sharp-eyed fans at that end of the rink thought was a goal.
—Jess Myers, Orlando Sentinel, 2 Nov. 2024
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But sharp-eyed drafters were able to pick up big value at relatively low prices, and that made all the difference.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2024
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The most compelling voice is that of Robert Feder, the longtime media critic and sharp-eyed observer.
—Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 21 Jan. 2025
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But Stan and Russell praise any sharp-eyed fan who noticed the Captain America callback in that scene.
—Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 5 May 2025
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The sharp-eyed doctor suspected dengue, a disease that is often missed but is now exploding around the world.
—Sarah Kaplan, Washington Post, 30 June 2024
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Some believed that Hudson, sharp-eyed and constantly on the move, was like a wild bird himself—a hawk, perhaps, or an eagle.
—Christoph Irmscher, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2023
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For all its sharp-eyed precision, the film feels flung onto the screen in the heat of artistic and diagnostic urgency.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2025
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But sharp-eyed Swifties spotted her talon nail extensions, which were doughnut glazed with extra sparkle added.
—Esme Mazzeo, Peoplemag, 9 Jan. 2024
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Earlier in the half, sharp-eyed fans on social media even caught Eminem giving the finger to 49ers fans from a private box.
—Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2024
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But Breillat is a sharp-eyed veteran of provocation with a purpose.
—Nicolas Rapold, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2024
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Sandy the cat is back with his family after surviving a tornado thanks to sharp-eyed rescuers.
—Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 14 Dec. 2023
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Integral to his work’s profound effect is its sharp-eyed iconoclasm.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2023
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Another sharp-eyed observer, Thoreau lived a life apart.
—Angelica Aboulhosn, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Sep. 2023
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But a sharp-eyed auto insurer felt something was off about the furry interloper.
—Grant Stringer, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
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As the images began spreading, fact-checking organizations and sharp-eyed users quickly flagged them as fake.
—Clare Duffy, CNN, 17 July 2023
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The revival is a remarkable about-face for the longtime eatery, which closed Nov. 10 after Huynh, the restaurant’s chic and sharp-eyed matriarch, announced her retirement along with her husband, chef and co-owner Jason Huynh.
—Phillip Valys, Miami Herald, 29 Jan. 2025
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In other words, he has been widely recognized for seeing America’s problems with sharp-eyed clarity.
—Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023
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The is achieved through expressive performance, sharp-eyed direction and deft choreography.
—Christopher Smith, Orange County Register, 29 Jan. 2024
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The thankless task of debunking fake images and videos online has generally fallen upon news reporters, fact-checking websites and some sharp-eyed good Samaritans.
—IEEE Spectrum, 28 Feb. 2019
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Wide-eyed wonder becomes blind faith, just as sharp-eyed skepticism curdles into narrow-minded cynicism.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Dec. 2023
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Lund’s subject is baseball, his premise is historical, and his dramatic mode, though no less sharp-eyed and fragmented than Taormina’s, is rooted in documentary filmmaking.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2025
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Created by Jenji Kohan and based on Piper Kerman’s memoir, the show was ribald, off-kilter, playfully knowing about female sexuality, and sharp-eyed about the prison-industrial complex.
—Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 12 July 2023
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