Sentence examples for sharpen on from inspiring English sources

This season, the focus will sharpen on how Mangini deals with adversity, how he steers a team that has already matched its loss total (six) from last season.

A maid is described as having fine features that would have been even finer "had they been allowed to sharpen on a duchess," while the crowd at the opening night of John Gay's "Beggar's Opera" is "heaving like a bishop's belly".

Racing is currently doubly blessed, and now that the rare brilliance of Frankel is back under wraps until its owner's autumn swansong, the focus can sharpen on this season's less dazzling, but no less compelling, entry in the sport's history books.

As a 12", DrumTalk's SNB/Super Vega taps into the collective aesthetic of H+P with relish; twisting foreboding vocals and playful percussion into the kind of driving house rhythms that make our shoulders sharpen on the dancefloor.

The blade profile of most CQC-6's is a Japanese chisel ground tantō with a single bevel or zero-ground blade sharpened on only one side.

And here the mood sharpened, taking on a more overtly theatrical edge.

But lately, the language has sharpened on both sides.

The fact that it got sharpened on the faces of fellow-students was incidental.

Nearly all the spear points were several inches long and sharpened on both sides.

Higher-quality knives are sharpened on a grindstone, then buffed, then hand-honed on a stone that Mr. Ambrosi expects will last throughout his sons' careers.

But there was a sense that the contours of both races had sharpened on a night that Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor, dropped out of the race.