How To Use Sharpened In A Sentence

A blunt knife may be sharpened on a stone, but if a man is stupid there is no help for his stupidity.
The judge was also shown sharpened branches and wood used to torment the youngsters. The Sun
A blunt knife may be sharpened on a stone, but if a man is stupid there is no help for his stupidity.
She pulled a fresh pile of paper from her desk drawer, sharpened her pencil and got down to work.
This incident has sharpened public awareness of the economic crisis.

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When the Boolooroo's people were armed with long, thin, lances of bluewood all sharpened to fine points at one end, they prepared to march once more against the invaders. Sky Island: being the further exciting adventures of Trot and Cap'n Bill after their visit to the sea fairies
It has also sharpened up the driving experience. Times, Sunday Times
But golf officials suspected that some club faces had been resharpened and were often verging on illegality.
He chased his tail and ate May's ferns, and sharpened his tiny claws on the kitchen chair legs, and left a light layer of ginger fur everywhere he went.
She was Karving her initials on the moose with the sharpened end of an interspace toothbrush given her by Svenge – her brother-in-law – an Ma baloney haz a furst name… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
Marx sharpened and deepened this concept, and then used it to explore capitalism's class relations and internal dynamics.
With urbanisation the antagonism between rich and poor sharpened.
On the outer edges of the sword was shining steel, sharpened to a fine point.
A horrendous smirk of a smile polluted Jen's bruised face as her fingers sharpened into pointed razor claws.
This time the predicament is a different one and knives are being sharpened. Archive 2008-06-01
With braillewriters ready, laptops open, and pencils sharpened, more than 45 students with visual impairments will participate in the Tenth Annual Technology Olympics.
Our exteroceptive senses transform this information into nerve signals, and the signals are analyzed, sharpened, and interpreted by our brain. Cosmic Symphony: A Deeper Look at Quantum Consciousness
Patroclus sharpened the carving-knife on the kitchen stove, and they all went out into the potato field.
A blunt knife may be sharpened on a stone, but if a man is stupid there is no help for his stupidity.
He pressed something with his thumb and the device fizzed loudly, electric blue light dancing between the sharpened points of the claw. CHAMELEON
I've also honed my design skills, and maybe even sharpened up my writing skills.
Roast butternut risotto In this risotto, roasted butternut is sharpened with lemon and sage and finished with squishy tomatoes and parmesan. Times, Sunday Times
A series of attacks have sharpened fears of more violence.
Graphics have been sharpened slightly, but the racing courses are the same, and with minor exceptions, so are the vehicles.
A blunt knife may be sharpened on a stone, but if a man is stupid there is no help for his stupidity.
She caught his eye, and her faculties, sharpened by the imminent peril, read relentment there. Colonel Quaritch, V.C. A Tale of Country Life
The tools are made by the tribals themselves from finely sharpened bamboo.
For the first purpose it is seldom mounted with a sharp "Point of War" and never sharpened for the purpose of recreating a medieval joust .
He was not happy with the strange inflections of the melodies, with their flattened 7ths and sharpened 6ths, and he was even more perplexed by the words: he had little English to begin with and the rustic archaisms only added to the problem.
During the rigged tournament, Claudius and Laertes give Hamlet a blunted sword while Laertes' weapon is sharpened and poisoned.
Anne sharpened her pencil and got out her homework.
And he got that whet rock, an oilstone, and sharpened his knife just like a razor. Oral History Interview with Geddes Elam Dodson, May 26, 1980. Interview H-0240. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Many cutting tools were sharpened with strickles or whetstones.
A blunt knife may be sharpened on a stone, but if a man is stupid there is no help for his stupidity.
Nitpicking aside, the new approach seems to have sharpened their pop instincts. Times, Sunday Times
It would only be a moment before it sharpened its needlelike claws and took hold. Falling In
Graphics have been sharpened slightly, but the racing courses are the same, and with minor exceptions, so are the vehicles.
Cornelia figured to him while he walked away as, by contrast and opposition, a massive little bundle of data; his impatience to go to see her sharpened as he thought of this: so certainly should he find out that wherever he might touch her, with a gentle though firm pressure, he would, as the fond visitor of old houses taps and fingers a disfeatured, overpapered wall with the conviction of a wainscot-edge beneath, recognise some small extrusion of history. The Finer Grain
A blunt knife may be sharpened on a stone, but if a man is stupid there is no help for his stupidity.
Shoving books onto the floor, I finally found a clean piece of paper and a sharpened pencil.
A blunt knife may be sharpened on a stone, but if a man is stupid there is no help for his stupidity.
In March 1777 he became one of Washington's aides-de-camp, an experience that sharpened his criticism of the weak Articles of Confederation government.
R.: an ordinary clipboard and a sharpened yellow pencil.
Then he put the bent bradawl next to them, and the sharpened chisel. Persuader
Astronomers speculate that M51's spiral structure is primarily due to its gravitational interaction with a smaller galaxy just off the top of this digitally sharpened image.
Juliet Dunn is another designer who has sharpened up the caftan by using diamanté or sequins alongside the expected swirls of embroidery.
The outline of the trees sharpened as it grew lighter.
His gait was feeble, his form attenuated, his countenance had lost its ruddy glow, -- the lines had sharpened until their youthful, healthful roundness was wholly obliterated; but the nervous, untranquil expression had passed away from his face, and the restless glancing from side to side had left his eyes. Fairy Fingers A Novel
With a touch imperceptible as dewfall, she touched her brother's mind and sharpened his inner longing with restlessness. Stormwarden
The cold of night is sharpened by the disappearance of the surface winds.
The company claims the handling has been sharpened up considerably.
Men armed with sharpened bamboo sticks led the charge.
A knife is sharpened on the grindstone; steel is tempered in fire.
But the shoulders have widened and the appetite for victory sharpened by a few years' reflection on the might-have-beens.
Knives can be sharpened by grinding them against a rough stone.
She sharpened the meat carving knife on a whetstone.
And forgotten, too, the sharpened jut of his cheekbones and his chin, and the thinning high arch of his nose.
I've seen a lot of these complaints and criticisms before, and even voiced a few myself, just never sharpened to this kind of shiv-point or stuck in quite so mercilessly. Archive 2009-08-30
Her whole nature seemed sharpened and intensified into a pure dart of hate.
While the bands in punk's first wave (like the Sex Pistols and the Clash) did little more than take Chuck Berry riffs and push some safety pins through them, the British art students who formed Wire sharpened and reduced the guitars (and the half-minute outbursts that qualified as songs) into shivs instead. Disco Donors, Punk Pioneers
One or two of the gang climbed the banks to discover if any bailiffs were on the watch; while the others sat down, and with the help of the turnip lantern "busked" their spears; in other words, fastened on the steel -- or, it might be, merely pieces of rusty iron sharpened into a point at home -- to the staves. Auld Licht Idyls
The judge was also shown sharpened branches and wood used to torment the youngsters. The Sun
A blunt knife may be sharpened on a stone, but if a man is stupid there is no help for his stupidity.
Its satirical edge was sharpened by the deafening volume. Times, Sunday Times
Very few blades show signs of having been resharpened.
Patroclus sharpened the carving-knife on the kitchen stove, and they all went out into the potato field.
the second baseman sharpened his spikes before every game
Your ambitions are sharpened by the new moon. The Sun
All carbide blades can be resharpened professionally, yielding an extremely long working life.
With sharpened scythes and pitchforks, with pointed staves and heavy truncheons and ironshod clubs, they killed the miserable Germans all day long, and the line of escape was marked along the Beauvoisine road by corpses almost to The Story of Rouen
The chasseur was a tall, meagre, swarthy Spaniard or mulatto, lightly clad in cotton shirt and drawers, with broad straw hat, and moccasins of raw-hide; his belt sustaining his long, straight, flat sword or _machete_, like an iron bar sharpened at one end; and he wore by the same belt three cotton leashes for his three dogs, sometimes held also by chains. Black Rebellion Five Slave Revolts
Clare's kindness sharpened his awareness of the differences between them.
His the scepter, His the throne, they moved to their positions as if hovering — or, better, as if gliding on sharpened metal edges across a frozen pond.
When we were back in our room again, with the table against the door, I took out the whetstone and sharpened the man-side of the blade, honing its edge until the endmost third, the part I would use, would divide a thread tossed into the air. The Shadow of the Torturer
Delight in the boy can only be sharpened by the pathos and irony of his condition of becomingness.
The foreignness sharpened his wonderful gift for description, the intensely alive portrayal of character, what he called ‘the experience of the encounter’.
Shelley may have sharpened his quills, topped off the inkwell.
Carvers' chisels differ from carpentry chisels in the way they are sharpened.
I long to own a sword of my own, with handgrips made of sharkskin and a blade that I have sharpened to a point where it could cut through this cherry blossom tree in two swipes of the blade.
Use the next page to list all your scissors and shears, when they were sharpened and new ones you need.
The large upright stone also bears the marks of where new adze heads were ground and sharpened.
Ulysses took his revenge while Polyphemus was asleep, driving a sharpened and heated log into the single eye of their cannibal captor.
If I were working on a larger scale I'd use a wooden lolly stick, sharpened appropriately, and dipped into Indian Ink.
She sharpened her pencils and started drawing.
The front-mounted roller is designed with unsharpened blades welded to a hollow cylinder drum that can be filled with water for additional weight.
She was Karving her initials on the møøse with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian møvies: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Mølars of Horst Nordfink"... Where am I?
Around all these houses they put a triple palisade, that is three rows of stout, sharpened stakes, driven deep into the ground and rising full six feet above it. The Young Trailers A Story of Early Kentucky
Powered by a power drill, knives, scissors, shears and rotary mower blades can also be sharpened.
I had cleared the kitchen table for this task – already installing an anglepoise lamp and a jam jar filled with newly sharpened pencils. A Special Relationship
The darts, sharpened at one end, are dipped in the poisonous sap of the curare tree to produce an anaesthetic effect upon the victim.
The earliest weapons-clubs, spears, slings, bows, and arrows-typically required wood construction, even if the business end was made of sharpened stone or, at later times, of metal.
The case of Harris has sharpened the debate over capital punishment.
The darts, sharpened at one end, are dipped in the poisonous sap of the curare tree to produce an anaesthetic effect upon the victim.
She changed it, sharpened it, honed it, every night a new angle, a fresh thought.
Depleted uranium is "pyrophoric", which makes it uniquely effective at piercing hard targets, because upon impact, it immediately burns, vaporizing the majority of its bulk and leaving a hard, thin, sharpened tip - and large amounts of radioactive particles suspended in the atmosphere. Honor Vets by Learning About Depleted Uranium
A knife is sharpened on the grindstone; steel is tempered in fire.
In fact, he is the Government, although the Datu Klana's signature or seal is required to confirm a sentence of capital punishment, and possibly in one or two other cases; and his Residential authority is subject only to the limitations of his own honor and good sense, sharpened somewhat, were he other than what he is, by possible snubs from the Governor of the Straits Settlements or the Colonial Secretary. The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither
The city being the media capital of Punjab has sharpened their ratiocinative faculties and given them sufficient opportunity to express themselves on social, economic, political, cultural and other issues.
Happiness had always sharpened Jacob's appetite for its contraries. SACRAMENT
It begins with observation, with reporting, rendering the facts of our inner and outer reality with acuity sharpened by imagination.
This natural aptness, which is fortified by living together, was in Lionello sharpened and refined by his ever wakeful malevolence. Jean-Christophe Journey's End
To cut quickly and safely, saws must be sharpened often.
Discipline has sharpened them up.
Nick sat down at his desk, sharpened his pencil and began to draw.
A blunt knife may be sharpened on a stone, but if a man is stupid there is no help for his stupidity.
He states that early Chinese plane blades were sharpened with two bevels, the front bevel requiring a lower iron mounting angle.
They are bound to think you are on your own, and their shears are all sharpened for the trimming of newcomers like you. Chapter II
We have sharpened our business skills and refocused our attention on what's really important to the industry.
The chasseur was a tall, meagre, swarthy Spaniard or mulatto, lightly clad in cotton shirt and drawers, with broad straw-hat and moccasins of raw hide; his belt sustaining his long, straight, flat sword or _machete_, like an iron bar sharpened at one end; and he wore by the same belt three cotton leashes for his three dogs, sometimes held also by chains. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860
The stake had been sharpened to a vicious-looking point.
That run should have sharpened her up sufficiently to get those elusive winning brackets.
His sight dimmed, and his hearing sharpened as his ears began to shift.
The sharpened feather made a small blot of ink as the tip touched the yellowish paper.
When Mark Penn went on Hardball, purportedly to disown Shaheen’s aspersions, he instead sharpened them by using the word cocaine on air. Big Girls Don’t Cry
A blunt knife may be sharpened on a stone, but if a man is stupid there is no help for his stupidity.
The meal began with a rockmelon cut into halves, the flavour sharpened with a squeeze of juice from a homegrown lemon.
Such sharpened personal and professional rivalry means there's no certainly no shortage of gossip for old biddies under the dryer.
The pressure of such defensive forays into inner-city territory, each homing in acutely at the side of others and being jostled by them, makes for compound ironies which are truly sharpened and banal.
I used to take candy bars, little toys, sharpened pencils, anything small and easy to mail to school.
Most obituarists prefer the airbrush to the sharpened pen when it comes to the famous and powerful.
I long to own a sword of my own, with handgrips made of sharkskin and a blade that I have sharpened to a point where it could cut through this cherry blossom tree in two swipes of the blade.
The reality of Federation and the world's deepening crisis together sharpened nationalism after 1901.
Bertrams did not grow on every bush, and whose senses the function had preternaturally sharpened for any address from Romance, seized and shook her sister's arm; and, later on, in a Louis Quinze _causeuse_, up stairs, they agreed that if young Cope really had had another claimant on his attention, it was all the better that their Amy had ended by taking Bertram Cope's Year
Her hearing was sharpened by fear.
We also took turns at turning the crank of the grindstone when scythes needed to be sharpened.
A miser's body lies cut in a thousand places by a huge array of coins with sharpened edges.
Note was made of points that appeared to have been resharpened, but such points were not excluded from summary calculations.
She was very white, and she knew — for with her nerves thus sharpened she saw everything — that he was both uneasy and compunctious. The Man of Property
In all placental mammals the lower canine bites ‘ahead’ of the upper canine (look at sloths and you’ll see that they differ – almost certainly because one of their canines isn’t actually a true canine), and in peccaries the almost total lack of enamel on the posterior surface of the lower canine means that it is constantly sharpened as it moves against the enamelled anterior face of the upper canine. Why putting your hand in a peccary’s mouth is a really bad idea
It has also sharpened up the driving experience. Times, Sunday Times
The whetstone would have been a important possession for the woodworker as, without it, he could not have sharpened any of his tools.
It has just sharpened their edge for the championship ahead.
`Sharpened knitting needle sterilized and dipped in aniline dye. THE LONELY SEA
He wears his officer's cap jaunty, and picks his teeth with a sharpened goose quill.
Doula Jen, as Sarah had nicknamed her, arrived at our house to find one overeager student with freshly sharpened pencils and a crisp new notepad. Times Two
Though possibly sharpened by electoral politics, the comments seemed to confirm fears that Mr. Putin's return to the Kremlin will bring a stormier period in U.S. Putin Offers to Ease Grip, But Won't Annul Election
Keene was at no loss to recall inoffensive phrases; in another long speech, full of cajolery sufficiently artful for the occasion, he represented himself as having merely protested against misrepresentations obviously sharpened by malice. Demos
I had read enough Indian book reviews to know that reviewers are ustads with blades sharpened on a cruelly efficient whetstone.
Pursuivant sharpened his pencil, opened his notebook, and wrote down the date.
The edge is very sharp from the factory and is easily resharpened.
I've also honed my design skills, and maybe even sharpened up my writing skills.
The sprit was sharpened at each end, and the point at the upper end was inserted in a loop of heavy cord fastened to the peak of the sail, while the lower point of the sprit rested in the loop of a rope on the mast, called a "snotter. The Scientific American Boy The Camp at Willow Clump Island
a sharpened pencil
He is dressed in a Crombie full-length coat and is brandishing a sharpened steel comb.
The work is done purely by hand, and through a series of 10 whetstones, (large lumps of grindstone) the blade is filed down, sharpened, and finished with an elaborate wavy pattern.
The flavour for this one is spicy, with hints of cumin and smoky pimenton, and sharpened with lime. Times, Sunday Times
The stake had been sharpened to a vicious-looking point.
Once you've decided on a shape, make short, light, upward feathery strokes with a soft, well-sharpened pencil to replicate the natural brow hairs.
The film hit all the notes from comedy to pathos and sharpened your hearing as it did so. Times, Sunday Times
This incident has sharpened public awareness of the economic crisis.
The long, unsharpened pencils with no bite marks, multi-colored pens, and clean erasers somehow held the promise of achievements to come…
Juliet Dunn is another designer who has sharpened up the caftan by using diamanté or sequins alongside the expected swirls of embroidery.
I can almost hear the furious grinding of teeth, the growls of seething rage and the sound of knives being sharpened as people prepare to tell me in almost interminable detail why I'm oh-so-very wrong.
My whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.
A blunt knife may be sharpened on a stone, but if a man is stupid there is no help for his stupidity.
A stiff ride on the flats along a creek-bed exhilarated him and sharpened his bloodlust.
..okay, okay...hey, mister, wanna buy a "hand sharpened" pencil, price slashed down to $7.99...what a' ya want outta me, blood ? Street Justice: Crime and Punishment
Musically, angelic guidance has rearranged priorities and sharpened his ear.
Even though wild and unwise boar do not look for danger above them, and that a man hiding up a tree with a big sharpened log was sure to be able to get himself some pork for the barbecue, our porcine tormentors were safe.
Interestingly, Stevenson's fondness for retrospection does not seem to have blinded him but rather to have sharpened his sensitivity to seeing.
Knives can be sharpened by grinding them against a rough stone.
The fruit should be liquidised and sieved to remove the seeds, sweetened with the sugar and sharpened with the citrus juices before the stiff whipped cream is folded in.
A blunt knife may be sharpened on a stone, but if a man is stupid there is no help for his stupidity.
A knife is sharpened on the grindstone; steel is tempered in fire.
A set of trimmer figures and new tattoos show a band that's been sharpened by extended tours of an obscure but adoring and importantly, swelling international circuit.
Generally, the hammers need to be resharpened each week while the plates require regrinding every three to four weeks. Chapter 7
A short time later we were on the water and into some schoolie stripers, so I rigged Barbie with a small jig and carefully sharpened the hook. Fishing With Barbie
This influence is ac - companied by a disposition to criminate him who may be intrust - ed with the direction of the means of protection, sharpened by an indisposition to retribute those who lose by not receiving that protection however sirongly called for by equity. Memoirs of the war in the Southern department of the United States
As was, rage sharpened my wit to serve for the smallsword I left at home. A different flesh
She was Karving her initials on the møøse   with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given   her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and   star of many Norwegian møvies: The Høt Hands of an Oslo   Uncategorized Blog Posts
But many have spoken of an exhilaration of spirits not inferior to that of the mountaineer, which is experienced, and without fatigue, in sky voyages reasonably indulged in -- of a light-heartedness, a glow of health, a sharpened appetite, and the keen enjoyment of mere existence. The Dominion of the Air; the story of aerial navigation
A blunt knife may be sharpened on a stone, but if a man is stupid there is no help for his stupidity.
He also threatened her by holding a sharpened pencil tip to one of her eyes.
Its satirical edge was sharpened by the deafening volume. Times, Sunday Times
The case of Harris has sharpened the debate over capital punishment.
And it was discouraging to him to think of having to appease four sharpened appetites with a crust of bread.
Those ten soft digits got caught in the sharpened teeth of Susie's slitty mouth and her slitty slit. NICK POP'S BRAIN
When a man is disposed to receive the prophetic afflation of Correspondences, it rouses within him a perception of the Word; he comprehends that the creations are transformations only; his intellect is sharpened, a burning thirst takes possession of him which only Heaven can quench. Seraphita
Sanction did make no mention of it, and that the holy Pope to everyone gave liberty to fart at his own ease, if that the blankets had no streaks wherein the liars were to be crossed with a ruffian-like crew, and, the rainbow being newly sharpened at Milan to bring forth larks, gave his full consent that the good woman should tread down the heel of the hip-gut pangs, by virtue of a solemn protestation put in by the little testiculated or codsted fishes, which, to tell the truth, were at that time very necessary for understanding the syntax and construction of old boots. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
Erosion had sharpened its edges and although the drivers trundled gently in bottom gear, there were two punctures.
He also had a cutting blade on the edge behind the tip to cut the hole, and the steel projection parallel with the spigot shaft was sharpened on its edge to smooth the cut hole as it penetrated the wood.
For writing upon paper or parchment, the Romans employed a reed, sharpened and split in the point like our pens, called calamus, arundo, or canna. De vita Caesarum
Perhaps it was that close brush with death that had sharpened all her senses.
Anne sharpened her pencil and got out her homework.
The saleswoman raised an eyebrow skeptically; her voice sharpened.
A series of attacks have sharpened fears of more violence.
Rasmussen said he is simply a "scorekeeper," but his spike in clout has sharpened skepticism about how he tracks the dip in Democratic fortunes. Pollster Scott Rasmussen's numbers are firing up Republicans and Democrats
It's clear that age hasn't mellowed him, only sharpened his observations.
Circular blades formed blade breakers on either side of the flare, their outer edges sharpened.
Ready at all times for such emergencies, the leader would not suffer himself to be found without every conceivable legal quillet, sharpened and retouched, against the official orders. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843
This is where the bile and the agony and the rage of rock and roll was sharpened and honed.
The large upright stone also bears the marks of where new adze heads were ground and sharpened.
We also took turns at turning the crank of the grindstone when scythes needed to be sharpened.
This is where the bile and the agony and the rage of rock and roll was sharpened and honed.
Only 70 of the 191 were resharpened more than once.
The opening sequence features a blade being sharpened on stone, quickly cross-cutting to a chaotic chase in which a gang of desperadoes attempt to capture a rogue chicken.
I didn't know what to make of the unchallengeable fact that some of the police officers said their views had been sharpened by on-the-street experience of dealing with ethnic minorities.
His orchestral forces are reduced, tempos are uniformly brisk, contours are sharpened, and his textures are ‘lean and mean’.
She must have had naturally a strong appetite, which her active life sharpened, and its indulgence formed a sort of refuge from the pressure of the intense solitude in which she lived, and which was all the more a solitude because it was _solitude à deux_. Questionable Shapes
Its satirical edge was sharpened by the deafening volume. Times, Sunday Times

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