SHARPEN in a Sentence
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50 example sentences for SHARPEN, such as:
1. We had to sharpen our arguments.
2. Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
3. Exercise will give you a sharpening figure back.
4. There is a need to sharpen the focus of the discussion.
5. Your wit is as sharp as a pencil right out of a pencil sharpener.
2. Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
3. Exercise will give you a sharpening figure back.
4. There is a need to sharpen the focus of the discussion.
5. Your wit is as sharp as a pencil right out of a pencil sharpener.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of SHARPEN
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sharpen
v. make (images or sounds) sharp or sharper
v. make sharp or sharper
Classic Sentence: (39 in 3 pages)
1 Upon my honour,' returned Markham, 'town seems to sharpen a man's appetite.
2 As for the tribe itself, it had been content to announce to Montcalm, through his emissaries, with Indian brevity, that their hatchets were dull, and time was necessary to sharpen them.
3 Well, he wrote so furiously that he broke his pencil, and had, as you observe, to sharpen it again.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE THREE STUDENTS
Context Highlight In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE THREE STUDENTS
4 Five great cities set up the anvil and sharpen the sword, strong Atina and proud Tibur, Ardea and Crustumeri, and turreted Antemnae.
5 It was the sense of his helplessness that sharpened his antipathy.
6 Now, her emotions were sharpened by her long dreams of him, heightened by the repression she had been forced to put on her tongue.
7 They were on their way to the entrenchments that ringed the town--no shallow, hastily dug trenches, these, but earthworks, breast high, reinforced with sandbags and tipped with sharpened staves of wood.
8 She remembered, too, with hate sharpened by envy the red plaid dress, the red-topped boots with tassels and the pancake hat of Emmie Slattery.
9 She was Gerald's own daughter and the shrewd trading instinct she had inherited was now sharpened by her needs.
10 At each road-crossing she had to crawl over a cattle-guard of sharpened timbers.
11 One of these men told Jurgis that he had sharpened three thousand pieces of steel a day for thirteen years.
12 With a memory sharpened to almost preternatural clearness, she remarked every turn in the road, and formed a mental estimate of the time to be occupied in traversing it.
13 It was impossible to doubt him; there was truth in every one of its thin and sharpened lineaments.
14 His whole face sharpened away into nose and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over his outstanding bones.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER’S THUMB
Context Highlight In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER’S THUMB
15 In the middle of it rose two great stones, worn and sharpened at the upper end until they looked like the huge corroding fangs of some monstrous beast.
Example Sentence:
1 I mope for a while, during which I may curse some more because a good curse needs mileage to really sharpen its impact.
2 We had to sharpen our arguments.
3 There is a need to sharpen the focus of the discussion.
4 Our cat likes to sharpen her claws on the legs of the dining table.
5 A blunt knife may be sharpened on a stone, but if a man is stupid there is no help for his stupidity.
6 The case of Harris has sharpened the debate over capital punishment.
7 A knife is sharpened on the grindstone; steel is tempered in fire.
8 Exercise will give you a sharpening figure back.
9 As selfishness and complaint cloud the mind,so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
10 Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
11 Your wit is as sharp as a pencil right out of a pencil sharpener.