A sentence for the word trenchant?

A detective must be very trenchant in order to do his job right.

(The words may be part of separate clauses, or the letter I could specifically refer to the letter of the alphabet. Otherwise, the proper conjugation is "am.")Examples:The one that I like the best is...

She stopped her speech in mid-sentence to answer the question.

"I would like to return the gift you gave to me." "I understand you are trying to help me." "I don't get why this is always happening to me." I really hope that aunt shelly will get ME a great gift...

Examples : "Bill was puzzled by the unfamiliar word in the quotation." "He honored the contract because he had given his word.""Word is a word."