Sentence examples for gets sharpened from inspiring English sources

"Peru is an extremely centralized country," Sikic wrote, "where the issues that take place outside the capital (in this case, that of illegal gold mining and its consequences), for the most part, tend to have a soft focus put on them, which only gets sharpened sporadically".

The fact that it got sharpened on the faces of fellow-students was incidental.

Just look for those old saws to be getting sharpened right now.

Bilingual property mogul Hayden Christensen must lie prostrate as he hears the scalpels get sharpened and the surgeons say things such as: "We're gonna kill this guy then go get a couple of Martinis".

The only time I would venture to go "under the knife" is to view my sushi blade getting sharpened.

The arts are usually the first thing to end up on the cutting-room floor when budget scissors get sharpened in Washington.

If you are nervous about sharpening your own knives, you can bring your knife in to get sharpened by a professional.

If your knives get dull (which they all, eventually do, even with good honing habits), get them sharpened again.

By his side, Houston also got hot, sharpened his defense and ended up with 27 points.

No amount of planning or preparation can prevent such problems, she said, but she did cite standard company procedures -- like getting chainsaws sharpened and fueled, and readying shuttle buses.

They fake natural history with basic plumbing, making little rips in the urban fabric through which you glimpse hints of lost paradise and get a sharpened sense of Whitman's, the one you already inhabit.