sharpen

IPA: ʃˈɑrpʌn

verb

  • (transitive, sometimes figurative) To make sharp.
  • (intransitive) To become sharp.
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Examples of "sharpen" in Sentences

  • I sharpened my pencils.
  • The blade is sharpened to a chisel bevel.
  • A mechanism sharpens the spikes of the drum.
  • It sharpened the struggle between the classes.
  • The knob may then be turned to sharpen the blade.
  • Rosario is working in offseason to sharpen defense.
  • He sharpened his leadership acumen in the military.
  • The sharpened edge of the rib is adjacent the table.
  • Gain, and the pursuit of gain, sharpen a man's visage.
  • It's not the task of the SW to automatically sharpen an image.
  • This site actually tries to "sharpen" the noise and improve the information signal.
  • I asked, feeling my vague dislike for that particular name sharpen up to something dangerously like hatred.
  • DAN LOTHIAN, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: We've really seen the president kind of sharpen his tone this week.
  • I 'sharpen' my hunting knife with a Lansky stone set but I don't with my butcher knives, they're just too long bladed and wear out the stones.
  • On opposite sides of the country today, the presumptive presidential nominees will once again sharpen their positions on how to manage the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan if elected.
  • And just looking back at the whole situation, I think that it was such a hard time for me, but I - The reason that I felt it was necessary is because it really made me kind of sharpen up and realign.
  • WHITFIELD: And, and you also hear the argument that as they tried to, you know, kind of sharpen their positions, what they're also doing is sharpening a divide, a divide among Democrats and maybe even Independents?
  • The road is slippery on the high ground hard by, and it is debated at Lisselan House whether the farrier of the Dragoon Guards shall not be asked to "sharpen" the shoes of the animals employed there, for no local workman will touch them.
  • But there is nothing paradoxical about all this, for the Yogis, while preaching the folly of sense life, and manifesting the teaching in their lives, nevertheless believe in any and all exercises calculated to "sharpen" the Mind, and develop it to a keen state and condition.

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