Sentence examples for has been sharpening from inspiring English sources

"Russia has been sharpening its claws for a while.

Mr. Edwards has come late to the vitriol, though he has been sharpening his language.

Hun Sen, Cambodia's prime minister and, as some see him, would-be dictator, has been sharpening up his game in recent months.

Mr Thaksin, who stands on a pro-business platform, has been sharpening his knives.Winning the governor's election in Bangkok would have been the ideal start.

The French-born, New York-based painter has been sharpening her gifts for figuration and her L.G.B.T. politics—since the late nineteen-eighties.

Yet in other areas the Yes camp has been sharpening a message of difference and distinctiveness: on welfare, on childcare and gender equality, on immigration.

A pencil achieves its ideal length, according to Weaver, when it has been sharpened three times.

A new design team is in place, and the editorial vision has been sharpened.

The business end has been sharpened, helped partly by those commercial transfers.

The fossil has been sharpened up on its northern edge by two moments of striking 21st-century architectural modernism.

Nobody denies that the insecurity in America has been sharpened by the absence of a comprehensive health-care system.