How to Use hard-edge in a Sentence

hard-edge

adjective
  • He is known for larger-than-life sculptures and hard-edge paintings that feature his hybrid cartoon characters.
    — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026
  • The hard-edge suitcase is now a coffee table that sits in the living room between the wood-burning fireplace and a sofa that’s the only significant piece of contemporary furniture.
    — Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 22 Aug. 2026
  • British artist, printmaker, and educator Tess Jaray, known for her hard-edge abstractions, died on May 24 at age 88.
    — Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 25 June 2026
  • One of those sales was a rare Sam Gilliam hard-edge abstraction, Mycenaean Ode (1965), for $300,000.
    — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 20 Oct. 2026
  • By 1962, Jaray was making hard-edge abstract paintings that conjured architectural structures or details; delineated with masking tape and executed without visible brush strokes, they were carefully plotted out through multiple preliminary drawings, and in later years, on a computer.
    — Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 25 June 2026

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