Sentence examples for a sharpening from inspiring English sources

After that, you can either get yourself a sharpening stone and learn to do it yourself, or find a knife/kitchen shop with a sharpener you trust.

But against a sharpening tone, his precise demands remain unclear.

For knives that are in truly sorry shape, one needs a sharpening stone.

Now Islam is having to contend with a sharpening split between Sunni and Shia.

(In this sense, a sharpening steel doesn't actually sharpen; it just realigns, or "hones," the edge.

The presence of lions would, I suppose, have a sharpening effect on the senses.

Miller has returned to direct, and one notices a sharpening of its portrayal of urban alienation.

ALMOST LIKE RACE DAY A race-pace workout is a "sharpening exercise," Mr. Butt said.

Vault 7, even more than his previous publications, reflected a sharpening view of American global power.

Jorge Ramirez proudly displays a set of boning knives and a sharpening stone in his office high above Millennium Park.

A sharpening steel's purpose, therefore, is to push back the blade's teeth so they stand up and cut again.