Sentence examples for sharpen him from inspiring English sources

We felt there was more in there, hence the visor to sharpen him up".

He'll be coming here in the morning which should sharpen him up a bit.

In his new book, which is being published in America this month (it came out in Britain in October), Mr Bate explores a different Shakespeare, one Jonson described as "Soul of the Age!", the man who stood for and expressed the essence of his generation.The effect, curiously, is not to distance the man, but to sharpen him.

It's a good thing to sharpen him up, to take him along and let him see the surroundings and let him have a potter along on the Rowley Mile, and then he can come home and we can put the finishing touches on him for the Guineas.

On Friday night he came from 1-4 down in the second set to beat an out-of-sorts Murray 6-3, 7-5 in an hour and 33 minutes, a performance littered with too many butchered volleys to be totally convincing, but solid enough to sharpen him up for the semi-final against Milos Raonic.

When Jones moves in with the girls, he and his charges affect each other in unexpected ways -- the girls even sharpen him up for his date with elegant English literature professor Anne Archer.

He softens her; she sharpens him.

In preparing for Saturday's game, Kidd said his playoff failures have sharpened him.

I didn't do much work with him but I knew he had physically improved and Epsom had sharpened him.

"Exeter has sharpened him up for the Betfair," said Colin Tizzard.

But the 2004 Olympic silver medallist says new trainer Virgil Hunter has sharpened him up inside the ring.