Example sentences for: trenchant

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

  • The really trenchant analyses often come years later.

  • 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.

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

  • While their critique of liberalism's reluctance to introduce morality into politics is trenchant, left-wing communitarians like Sandel themselves are reluctant to advocate strong remedies--say prayer in public schools or laws against divorce--and rely instead on vague statements about the value of community life and neighborhoods.

  • These were the boring Ford years, but Kissinger is given credit for masterful analysis, trenchant characterizations, and vivid storytelling.


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