1. A blunt knife may be sharpened on a stone, but if a man is stupid there is no help for his stupidity. 

2. Anne sharpened her pencil and got out her homework.

3. She sharpened her pencils and started drawing.

4. The stake had been sharpened to a vicious-looking point.

5. A knife is sharpened on the grindstone; steel is tempered in fire.

6. The outline of the trees sharpened as it grew lighter.

7. Knives can be sharpened by grinding them against a rough stone.

8. Her gaze sharpened, as if she had seen something unusual.

9. His wits sharpened even he's older.

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10. Recent changes have sharpened competition between the airlines.

11. With urbanisation the antagonism between rich and poor sharpened.

12. Her hearing was sharpened by fear.

13. Discipline has sharpened them up.

14. The sea air sharpened our appetites.

15. Clare's kindness sharpened his awareness of the differences between them.

16. The case of Harris has sharpened the debate over capital punishment.

17. This incident has sharpened public awareness of the economic crisis.

18. The other end of the twig is sharpened into a sharp point to use as a toothpick.

19. A series of attacks have sharpened fears of more violence.

20. The prison riots have sharpened the debate about how prisons should be run.

21. The images sharpened on screen as the camera focused.

22. His impatience was sharpened by the girl's frailty.

23. These anxieties were mercilessly sharpened by the popular press.

24. Sharpened up, it could be an antidote to Buchanan.

25. R.: an ordinary clipboard and a sharpened yellow pencil.

26. You've got all your other senses, sharpened up nicely.

27. The bulldozers are getting their teeth sharpened in anticipation of devouring this 90-acre morsel, too.

28. The crayons can be sharpened in an ordinary sharpener as long as it's designed to take the thicker pencils or crayons.

29. Perhaps it was that close brush with death that had sharpened all her senses.

30. A second set of shadows appeared; at first long and faint, they shortened and sharpened rapidly.

1. Anne sharpened her pencil and got out her homework.

2. She sharpened her pencils and started drawing.

3. A knife is sharpened on the grindstone; steel is tempered in fire.

4. The outline of the trees sharpened as it grew lighter.

5. Knives can be sharpened by grinding them against a rough stone.

6. Her gaze sharpened, as if she had seen something unusual.

31. To start with I used them straight with no water and sharpened the leads to a fine point to draw the outline.

32. Southgate's and Bowyer's were fiery, hot-tempered, rearing and kicking the air with sharpened hooves.

33. Pursuivant sharpened his pencil, opened his notebook, and wrote down the date.

34. Nick sat down at his desk, sharpened his pencil and began to draw.

35. To remove any trace of ripples I use a freshly sharpened 2in wide, shallow curved scraper for the final skim.

36. She changed it, sharpened it, honed it, every night a new angle, a fresh thought.

37. Even the F40 shows a distinct family resemblance, although the lines were sharpened and simplified.

38. His brain seemed to seize up when Naseby was around, whereas Stitch sharpened it, like a whetstone.

39. The ensuing conflict has been sharpened by the phenomenal growth of outdoor recreation during the last two decades.

40. Poor kids, but in those days youngsters had their wits quickly sharpened by such antics.

41. She pulled a fresh pile of paper from her desk drawer, sharpened her pencil and got down to work.

42. Also, his insight into this matter would be sharpened by his dislike for Lleland, which had grown exponentially.

43. He also threatened her by holding a sharpened pencil tip to one of her eyes.

44. Carvers' chisels differ from carpentry chisels in the way they are sharpened.

45. This ability was sharpened by these players' meetings, which were a unique feature of football at this time.

46. When ripe, it is almost inclined to run, with a creamy flavour sharpened by the blue mould.

47. The crisp patterns of ploughed fields and domed woods stand in relief, sharpened by sunlight and shadow.

48. A miser's body lies cut in a thousand places by a huge array of coins with sharpened edges.

49. Too many guys down there with their ears all sharpened up.

50. A brief moon between clouds outside sharpened the lines of boxwood that led to the wooden gate.

51. I used to take candy bars, little toys, sharpened pencils, anything small and easy to mail to school.

52. His writings were sharpened and made more poignant by his troubles.

53. The teeth it exposed were greened with mould, and sharpened.

54. At San Quentin, Kirkpatrick stabbed one of his lawyers 17 times with a sharpened toothbrush.

55. That the falsehoods concerned a nuclear power plant sharpened the dismay.

56. Powered by a power drill, knives, scissors, shears and rotary mower blades can also be sharpened.

57. Philip sharpened one of his pencils that Lee must have broken, sharpened it too much and the lead broke again.

58. In the first place she sharpened her political antennae and manipulative skills.

59. The press did not reverse general perceptions of party leaders: it sharpened and reinforced images they already had.

60. It wasn't electric, and they never sharpened the barbed wire at the top.

61. The torture of not knowing what had happened to Chesarynth was sharpened by the realization that maybe he already knew.

62. His conversion sharpened his criticism of national and local politicians, who in turn questioned his integrity.

63. The lower 2 inches or so can be sharpened, to almost a knife edge.

64. Erosion had sharpened its edges and although the drivers trundled gently in bottom gear, there were two punctures.

65. Downward facing points are sharpened along their edges and not across the front faces.

66. Focus on visual information may be sharpened, when pupils are not trying to follow a sound commentary at the same time.

67. See, it has no proper point, and it is sharpened along one edge only.

68. Now somebody was playing games and ... his eyes sharpened as he caught a movement in the churchyard.

69. Recent developments have given our leaders a sharpened sense of responsibility.

69. Wish you will love and make progress everyday!

70. The debate around the insurgency sharpened.

71. Lying hidden at her waist, was a sharpened dagger.

72. The saleswoman raised an eyebrow skeptically; her voice sharpened.

73. The second baseman sharpened his spikes before every game.

74. The barber sharpened his razor on a strap.

75. For the first purpose it is seldom mounted with a sharp "Point of War" and never sharpened for the purpose of recreating a medieval joust .

76. Step 4 - The background is then stippled with a carbide tool sharpened to a needle point.

77. Tartar Lancers ride into battle dressed in lamellar armour and with a sharpened sword in hand.

78. The air of Paris had exhilarated her and sharpened her wits.

79. He sharpened his knife in preparation for carving the meat.

80. To their sharpened minds it was easy to conjure pictures of all kinds of incompetency and blindness and indeed, cowardice.

81. Activity in the ventral striatum surged , in an apparent sign of the sexual appetite being sharpened.

82. Customers sometimes foolishly test his handiwork by touching the sharpened edge.

83. Corticofugal inhibition sharpened the frequency tuning and reduced the auditory response area of IC neurons, and corticofugal facilitation produced the opposite effects.

84. He sharpened the scythes on the grindstone, slaughtered a pig, caught and salted fish, ground barley in a water-driven gristmill and grew and stored potatoes.

85. One day, while he was shaving with a straight razor that was so worn it could no longer be sharpened, the idea came to him.

86. He wears his officer's cap at an angle, jaunty, and picks his teeth with a sharpened goose quill .

87. The next generation yielded yellow orbs with a misty horizon, the next, sharpened waves with a horizon of blue.

88. The opposition supporters said they were also attacked by men in civilian dress and armed with knives, pangas (machetes), and sharpened sticks.

89. He wears his officer's cap jaunty, and picks his teeth with a sharpened goose quill.

90. He might be in his study from 10 at night until one in the morning, or up early to be at his desk by 8.30, writing with a quill pen he sharpened himself and favouring dark blue ink.

91. The workshop where saws are sharpened. It's quite loud inhere, so they work with earphones.

92. Patroclus sharpened the carving-knife on the kitchen stove, and they all went out into the potato field.

93. " Li Bai laughed loudly:" How could such a thick rod be sharpened into a delicate embroidery needle?

94. A tool for breaking hard surfaces, consisting of a curved bar sharpened at both ends and fitted to a long handle.

95. He took one scraper, he sharpened it like a razor blade.

96. He sharpened the edge of his knife on a grindstone.

97. Astronomers speculate that M51's spiral structure is primarily due to its gravitational interaction with a smaller galaxy just off the top of this digitally sharpened image.