Sentence examples for had been sharpening from inspiring English sources
The climate on the right had been sharpening for a few days.
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.
Its chief executive, Paul Donovan, said Odeon had been sharpening its act by improving customer service, increasing marketing, and upgrading its website to allow smoother booking from smartphones and tablets.
("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.
While the military exercises continued, the prospect of the South Korean live-fire drills — scheduled for Tuesday but canceled within four hours of the announcement — had been sharpening tensions on a peninsula on tenterhooks after the North's artillery attack last week on a garrison island that is also home to about 1,350 civilians, mainly fishermen.
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.
Vets worked for several hours to safely remove the wooden stake, which had been sharpened, from the horse's hind quarters.
The court was told Michael, who is serving a sentence for robbery with a firearm, stabbed Ashcroft in the chest with a thin piece of metal that had been sharpened to a point.
I have an old chisel, which I bought at a second-hand store in Vancouver, that had been sharpened and buffed a few times and developed a wonderful patina.
