Sentence examples for of sharpening from inspiring English sources

I had my favorites in each of these categories, but all the sharpeners I tested did a good job of sharpening knives that were slightly to moderately dull.

Mr Zapatero accuses Prisa's media outlets of sharpening their knives.

It has a way of sharpening the mind.

The dialogue is stilted, terse and bare, like the syncopated sparks of sharpening knives.

Woodward's musical-chairs selections, viewed in this context, are a great way of sharpening everyone's appetite.

Sometimes sleep helps, sometimes spearmint — just little ways of sharpening a mind's ability to synthesize.

DECEMBER'S last days have a way of sharpening the contrasts in this city.

There was no hitting, but there was plenty of sharpening of their edge.

And the process of sharpening a pencil well can be surprisingly satisfying.

Instead of sharpening his vision of Paris, Marxism had settled over it like a fog, reducing Benjamin to crude clichés.

(Manigault went on fasts in the hope of sharpening his color sense and eventually starved himself to death).