How to Use sharp-eyed in a Sentence

sharp-eyed

adjective
  • The tone and point of view were lofty, sharp-eyed, seemingly impassive.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • His sharp-eyed takes won him a Pulitzer for criticism in 1988.
    — Alex Williams, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • But sharp-eyed Swifties spotted her talon nail extensions, which were doughnut glazed with extra sparkle added.
    — Esme Mazzeo, Peoplemag, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Integral to his work’s profound effect is its sharp-eyed iconoclasm.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2023
  • But Breillat is a sharp-eyed veteran of provocation with a purpose.
    — Nicolas Rapold, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2024
  • Sandy the cat is back with his family after surviving a tornado thanks to sharp-eyed rescuers.
    — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 14 Dec. 2023
  • But a sharp-eyed auto insurer felt something was off about the furry interloper.
    — Grant Stringer, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • As the images began spreading, fact-checking organizations and sharp-eyed users quickly flagged them as fake.
    — Clare Duffy, CNN, 17 July 2023
  • The most compelling voice is that of Robert Feder, the longtime media critic and sharp-eyed observer.
    — Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 21 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • In this new struggle, as sharp-eyed militants understood, firmness of tread counted a great deal more than radicalism of demand.
    — Matthew Karp, Harpers Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Wide-eyed wonder becomes blind faith, just as sharp-eyed skepticism curdles into narrow-minded cynicism.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Dec. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The is achieved through expressive performance, sharp-eyed direction and deft choreography.
    — Christopher Smith, Orange County Register, 29 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • Judge Paul Hollywood has been a mainstay since the very beginning, offering his signature handshakes and sharp-eyed critiques.
    — Jane Lacroix, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
  • His ever-glowering face on the sideline has sparked countless memes and has come to personify the sharp-eyed, no-nonsense manner in which these Hoosiers have rocketed through the sport in just two seasons.
    — Greg Beacham, Chicago Tribune, 3 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • To create a better trigger system, which saves as much good data as possible while getting rid of low-quality data, researchers want to train a sharp-eyed algorithm to sort better than one that’s hard coded.
    — Dan Garisto, IEEE Spectrum, 7 Oct. 2022
  • That moment required sharp-eyed expertise — a scientist looking at an image of a living animal and connecting it, across years and continents, to fossils described by a colleague from teeth found in the ground.
    — Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 9 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • Understated, sharp-eyed, and drier than a drought, Vin (Ealy) spent his early adulthood as a Pullman Porter — smiling on cue while passengers snapped their fingers for whiskey.
    — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 12 May 2026
  • So Mom clears them out, taking them to a nearby nature preserve and natural-history museum, where the sharp-eyed Sasha notices the teen-age Jeremy stealing a souvenir keychain from a rotating rack.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2026

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