Sentence examples for had been sharpened from inspiring English sources
They found that the point was more than 10 inches long and that it had been sharpened.
A crucial point here is that Islamic civilisation had been sharpened and provoked by contact with Christians and Jews, while non-Muslims were (and remain) barred to Mecca.
According to the accounts published in the state media, the six men stood up midflight, shouted "religious extremist slogans," and then attacked the cockpit door with a pair of crutches that had been sharpened at the ends.
Timo Lochocki, an analyst of European populism and fellow at the German Marshall Fund thinktank, says Pegida's presence had been sharpened by the fact that its political goals have become far more clearly defined since the refugee crisis took off.
Alongside the bison I served a wild rice pilaf infused with double-smoked bacon, rendered fragrant with ground cloves and steeped in beef stock that had been sharpened with a little of the pomegranate molasses.
Vets worked for several hours to safely remove the wooden stake, which had been sharpened, from the horse's hind quarters.
Two weeks ago, Mr. Bradley had been sharpening his criticism of the vice president, even attacking a 15-year-old Senate vote by Mr. Gore that helped the tobacco industry.
("Get this, Gershwin writing fugues!" he crowed. "What will the boys say now?") Although a hit in Boston, the three-hour show was severely cut before it reached New York, where many of "the boys" had been sharpening their knives since 1924.
