Read full poem →With shrieking and squeaking
In fifty different sharps and flats. 20
Dictionary Entry
The symbol ♯, placed after the name of a note in the key signature or before a note on the staff to indicate that the note is to be played a semitone higher.
In a Sentence
“The pitch pipe sounded out a perfect F♯ (F sharp).”
Origin
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “sharps”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Instead those sturdy malcontents
Play sharps and flats in my kitchen floor.
Read full poem →Arms Manufacturing Co., with a capital of $1,000,000, and own-
ing the largest and finest shop of the kind in the country ; Sharps’
Rifle Manufacturing Co., Cheney Brothers, Silk Manufacturers,