Example sentences for: trenchant

How can you use “trenchant” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Not terribly analytical about his politics, Will is a trenchant rationalist when it comes to hardball.

  • The French adopted the habit as an intensifier of musculine nouns, proper and improper, and this too became mostly pejorative, as in mouchard sneak or informer (from mouche fly), and froussard coward (from frousse fright), and bastard , a trenchant abbreviation of fils de bast pack-saddle child.

  • an outrageous mixture of brilliant technique, puerile philosophizing, trenchant satire and sensory overload."

  • Appreciations deem the nine-season-old show the best of its era and a trenchant critique of late-20 th -century social mores.

  • The film, directed by Roger Michell from a script by Richard Curtis ( Four Weddings and a Funeral , 1994) is a brainy weave of satire and fantasy; it would take a neurosurgeon to unwind its trenchant observations of our celebrity-infatuated culture from its masturbatory, People magazine-worthy pipe dreams.


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