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• Those mechanical colored pencils work great because they don’t have to be sharpened.From the entry great
• The polearm had a wide, sharpened fluke attached to the central point.From the entry fluke
• In the hours before daylight he sharpened the skids and tightened the lashings to prepare for the long dogsled journey.From the entry skid
• Sharpening a photograph can oversaturate the colours.From the entry oversaturate
• I’ve personally been using it for the past 6 months with no problems, even after multiple sharpening.2023 December 27, Ben Kepka, “The 6 Best Fillet Knife Reviewed in 2025 – Buyers Guide”, in Fly Fisher Pro, archived from the original on…. From the entry filleting knife
• When it sharpens the image, you can't unsharpen it again without losing data.2012, Haje Jan Kamps, Focus on Travel Photography, page 91. From the entry unsharpen
• And they should likewise check that they have not sharpened the vervelles of the cervellieres.2010, Noel Fallows, Jousting in Medieval and Renaissance Iberia, Boydell Press, →ISBN, page 4. From the entry cervelliere
• Even a new knife will need to be sharpened, since it has a chisel edge.1988, Georgene Lockwood, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Crafts With Kids, →ISBN, page 112. From the entry slickem
• The others in the patrol grunted, turning back to cooking their food, sharpening their sgianan dubha, or scratching their wee balls.2016, Angela Quarles, chapter 3, in Must Love Kilts: A Time Travel Romance (Must Love Series; book 3), [U.S.A.]: Unsealed Room Press, →ISBN. From the entry sgian dubh
• I reach into my bag, pull out my pencil case, and offer Jason one of my fully sharpened number twos.2012, Lauren Morrill, Meant to Be, Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 108. From the entry number two
• The chief advantage of this eraser is that it may be sharpened to a point to erase a very small area.1989, Webster's New World Secretarial Handbook, →ISBN, page 59. From the entry eraser dust
• Of the 58 ovates, cordates and cleavers examined, 21 have a tranchet sharpened edge, and 14 are twisted.1985, John Wymer, The Palaeolithic Sites of East Anglia, page 107. From the entry cordate
• Sharpen up the edges of your wit.1953, Robert Wright, George Forrest, Kismet. From the entry cogitate
• Her annoyance sharpened to anger when, ending the inspection at her own pew, she found it occupied by a stranger.1935, Margaret Widdemer, “Guidance”, in Dorothy Scarborough, editor, Selected Short Stories of Today, New York, N.Y.: Farrar & Rinehart…. From the entry béreted
• Their indifference, however, sharpened to hostility in regard to the Chinese, against whom they seemed to nourish a special grudge.1933, Ada Elizabeth Jones Chesterton, Young China and New Japan. From the entry facultize
• I have my doubts about pencil-sharpeners even for sharpening pencils; and about hot water pipes even for heat.1910, Gilbert K[eith] Chesterton, What’s Wrong with the World, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, pages 147–148. From the entry pencil-sharpener
• Fina was carrying an empty rifle with a sharpened bayonet, and she'd thrust it straight up through his neck, severing the spinal cord.2023 October 12, HarryBlank, “Fire in the Hole”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 22 May 2024. From the entry lever
• Weakness was her enemy, the taloned beast that lived in her chest and couldn't wait to sharpen its fangs on her heart.2017, J. T. Ellison, So Close the Hand of Death. From the entry taloned
• But what if there have been several stabbings with shanks made out of sharpened toothbrushes and the warden is threatening a lockdown?2016, Charles Wheelan, Naked Money: A Revealing Look at Our Financial System. From the entry mack
• Spine pig, spine pig, say me true, how your flesh befits a you so articulate in joint as to sharpen to your point.2006, Wayne Clifford, The Book of Were. From the entry spine pig
• Taking the time to sharpen a dull pencil after a few strokes is as annoying as an oil-down after each round of drag racing.2006, T Taylor, How to draw cars like a pro. From the entry oil-down
• After years of unsplitting infinitives and feng shui-ing misplaced modifiers, I sheathed my editor's blue pencil and prepared to sharpen my mind.1998, John A. Barnett, “Out Publicly: The Professional and Personal of Gay Public Librarianship”, in James V[inson] Carmichael, Jr.…. From the entry feng shui
• Seldom used by the home craftsman or carver are two sharpening devices often used by whittlers and barbers: the "slickem-sharp" and the strop.1974, Sunset Books, Woodcarving, →ISBN, page 25. From the entry slickem
• These tools are termed nonedged handtools because they are not used for cutting purposes and do not have sharpened or cutting edges.1960, United States. Dept. of the Army, Use and care of handtools and measuring tools, page 77. From the entry nonedged
• If you sharpen a razor too much you will notch the edge, and if you overbend the bow, at last 'twill break .1912, Hans Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen, The Adventurous Simplicissimus, page 277. From the entry overbend
• On “Fearless,” Swift sharpened her lyrical specificity, using proper nouns and detailed renderings of conversations and experiences to create an indelible image of Taylor Swift, the savvy naïf.2021 April 12, Carrie Battan, “Taylor Swift Wins with “Fearless (Taylor’s Version)””, in The New Yorker. From the entry naïf
• Arty works for metrosexuals and gays, but not guys who think of themselves as 'real men.' Maybe have him in his gonch doing stuff like sharpening his skate blades.”2012, Savanna Fox, The Dirty Girls Book Club, Berkley, published 2012, →ISBN. From the entry gonch
• A community of chimpanzees living on the edges of the savanna in Senegal has learned to fashion and use spears, which they sharpen with their teeth.2011, John Jeremiah Sullivan, “Violence of the Lambs”, in Pulphead: Dispatches from the Other Side of America, London: Vintage Books…. From the entry gigging
• Now Symphony Space officials say they want to sharpen its focus while retaining the warm, salonlike feel and availability to the public that make it distinctive.2007 April 27, Daniel J. Wakin, “Building a One-Stop Arts Center”, in New York Times. From the entry salonlike
• Near the forest edge stood three big military tents with scalloped air vents along their rooflines and bush pole supports tethered to big sharpened bush pegs.2006, Nigel Turvey, Terania Creek, page 13. From the entry bush pole
• You shall not, I repeat, not, touch them with your finely sharpened number-two pencils or any other marking instrument until you are explicitly told to do so.2003, Trey Ellis, Platitudes: & the New Black Aesthetic, page 64. From the entry number 2 pencil
• It is always there in Irish life, the wrist's twist that flirts aside the decent cloth, damask or calico, and shows for a glinting instant the sharpened knife.1988, Thomas Flanagan, novel: The Tenants of Time chapter 13. From the entry flirt
• That's why," he said, holding up his knife so they could see it gleam in the light of the spit fire, "cutting with my method actually sharpens my knife.1982, Ted Mancuso, Frank Hill, Kung Fu for Young People: An Introduction to Karate and Kung Fu, →ISBN. From the entry spit fire
• A few leading edge (some say "bleeding" edge) users have stepped into the arena and their experiences have helped sharpen our perception of what the electronic office can be.1977, Infosystems, volume 24, page 64. From the entry bleeding edge
• A pot boiled upon the edge of the fire, and out of it one of the creatures would occasionally drag a hunk of meat with a sharpened stick.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 194. From the entry unclean
• Sulphur matches were usually made by splitting thin slips off the edge of resinous pinewood or other light, inflammable wood, sharpening roughly each end, and dipping into melted sulphur.1907 November, Elliot Stock & al., "Notes of the Month“, The Antiquary, Vol. XLIII (OS) or III (NS), No. 11, p. 411. From the entry sulfur match
• The silhouette sharpens and fades as the carving is moved before the flames of the hearth, its maker grunts in perfect imitation of the ancestor - a human-lioness in oestrus.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 186. From the entry grunt

Meaning of sharpen

1. verb To make sharp.
2. verb To become sharp.

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Questions about sharpen in a sentence

How do you use sharpen in a sentence?

Sharpen is used as a verb. For example: “Those mechanical colored pencils work great because they don’t have to be sharpened.”

What is a short sentence with sharpen?

“Sharpen up the edges of your wit.”

What does sharpen mean?

Sharpen means to make sharp.