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Example sentences for: hone

How can you use “hone” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

opportunity and space to recruit, train, and select operatives with the needed skills and dedication, providing the time and structure required to socialize them into the terrorist cause, judge their trustworthiness, and hone their skills;
The counselor's hope is that the student will hone to quasi-perfection a fine ability to detect, capture, and internalize information about the occurrence, co-occurrence and patterning of lexis in context, plus a lot else besides.
19 Perhaps these estimates reflect a touch of jealousy; in any case, KSM was plainly a capable coordinator, having had years to hone his skills and build relationships.
He had such a depth of understanding, a maturity of judgment and an uncanny ability to hone in on the real issues.
While this was wasteful in terms of redundant software development, it did allow us to hone our system to the particular needs of our project.