The word "hone" is a perfectly acceptable and usable word in written English.
It is an alternative to "sharpen" and can be used in situations where you want a verb to describe the act of improving or making something more precise or efficient. For example, you could say: "He is honing his artistic skills by taking classes and painting every day."
We've looked at their key players, we've got to hone our skills and be ready.
By then he was immersed in the type of community politics that he would continue to hone over the course of his career and use to devastating effect in constituencies regarded as safe by other parties.
After she had completed a long day of teaching her reception class in Sunderland, Mclean would train with her club in Darlington, work out in the gym or occasionally meet Street, who travelled hundreds of miles to hone her game at fly-half.
Her photos hone in on the "cult of masculinity" amongst the generation born as the Soviet Union fell apart: they show a disaffected urban existence amongst graffiti, hanging around on train tracks and playing with guns.
Later that week, a meeting of the "quad" – the coalition's senior members – was called to hone the message on the risks posed by independence.
Upmarket development plans include a golf course at Lake Burabay in northern Kazakhstan and a smart resort on the Caspian Sea – leaving critics wondering who will frequent such places: wealthy Europeans and South East Asians, after all, are unlikely to choose Kazakhstan as a place to hone their backswing or sun themselves on the beach, they suggest.
Through a programme of talks and practical workshops, you'll learn how to structure your story so it best frames your personal experience, and hone your writing style to build an intimate bond with your readers.
Although he turned his back on the British system at the age of 15 in order to hone his talents on the clay courts of Barcelona's Sánchez-Casal academy, the Scot has rarely looked entirely at ease on the red stuff.
The immigration crisis at the border has blessed – or cursed – potential contenders for the 2016 Republican presidential race: the Perrys and Christies and Ted Cruzes and Marco Rubios have an opportunity, right now, to hone their rhetoric around the policy, cleaving a careful line between calls for more forceful border defense and sympathy for those suffering.
Wealthy Europeans and South East Asians, after all, are unlikely to choose Kazakhstan as a place to hone their backswing or sun themselves Kazakhstan is also targeting winter tourism, which received a boost when Prince Harry of the British royal family took to the slopes at the Shymbulak ski resort this winter.
Such military involvement is rare.Global Times, a Beijing newspaper, quoted an unnamed anti-terrorism official as saying that since last year nearly 100 ethnic Uighurs (Xinjiang's largest minority) had gone to Syria to fight alongside rebels to hone their "terrorist skills".
