Sentence examples for spent sharpening from inspiring English sources

Think of it as time well spent sharpening their moves.

Every few months, dozens of business executives travel to the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania for an intensive week spent sharpening their negotiation skills.

"Word of mouth has been golden for us," says Holly. "Word travels fast in Norfolk". The years spent sharpening his culinary skills have also paid off for Dan, which is reflected in the support of other chefs in the area, including Galton Blackiston from Michelin-starred Morston Hall.

Weekends are spent sharpening academic weak spots in paid tutoring sessions.

He started developing other interests, deciding the time he spent sharpening his turntable skills could be better spent elsewhere.

The idea for artisanal pencils came to Rees, a former fact checker for Maxim magazine, while he was working for the US census bureau and spent hours sharpening pencils for survey-takers.

The old saying "If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my axe" could not relate more perfectly to this phase.

The sword of implicit racial resentment, which the Republican Party had spent thirty years sharpening, has stayed in its scabbard..

The rats lounged in the long tubes of bamboo that served as house beams and spent nights there sharpening their teeth.

Instead of appearing on panel shows, he's spent the decade sharpening his deceptively rambling stand-up in unusual places (Kiev, Moscow, Kazakhstan) and popping up in movies.

The day he died he spent the morning sharpening all her kitchen knives.