Sentence examples for sharpened point from inspiring English sources

Police say that it had a sharpened point and appeared to have a dangerous blade.

Often, young people's first physical violent weapon is something called a "shank"; a sharpened piece of material, usually plastic or wood, made to resemble the sharpened point of a knife.

"It is a steel-type sword with a sharpened point and what looks like a sharpened edge," he said.

His first works were squat, crudely fashioned figures in clay, the artist "carving directly into the pliable material with the sharpened point of a rib from a pig he had slaughtered for the family table," the art critic Judd Tully writes melodramatically in his essay for the catalog.

This is easiest if you turn the pencil so that the sharpened point is pointing straight up.

They made arrows using bamboo, sharpening points with the teeth of a large rodent.

His own thumbnails are sharpened into points, in case he needs to separate the mucosal layer beneath the foreskin.

Would he have been standing on David Stern's doorstep with one of his prized letter-openers (he collected them) sharpened and pointed at the commissioner?

They built, over two days, entrenchments around a rise between the fort and Mount Hope, about three-quarters of a mile (one kilometer) northwest of the fort, and then constructed an abatis (felled trees with sharpened branches pointing out) below these entrenchments.

The history of the respective colonies sharpens some points in this general background.

His opening riffs are delivered sitting down rather than standing up, and he uses video clips to sharpen his points, but they are formally similar to (though far more acute than) the monologues delivered by Letterman and Leno and the rest, all the way back to Carson and Paar and Steve Allen.