| 1. | A second less and the trenchant blade had shorn through his heart. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 2. | The trenchant falchion lopp'd his hands awa. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 3. | My sister had a trenchant way of cutting our bread and butter for us, that never varied. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| 4. | Make soft thy trenchant sword for those milk pap. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 5. | poniard And of his sword full trenchant was the blade. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 6. | Most trenchant rendition of that ballad, upon my soul and honour It is. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 7. | His eyes, of the usual blue, were perhaps remarkably cold, and he certainly could make his glance fall on one as trenchant and heavy as an ax. - from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
| 8. | declared that Holmes was "perhaps the best living writer of this species of verse." His trenchant attack on _Homeopathy and Its Kindred Delusions. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various |
| 9. | _His singing of that simple ballad, Martin, is the most trenchant rendering I ever heard in the whole course of my experience.. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |