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Example sentences for: sharpen

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Conversion to the Islamic faith was seen as a means of advancement, and those Rajputs who didn’t take advantage of this offer were able to sharpen their martial skills in constant guerrilla warfare.
Perhaps Aman will sharpen his perspective and techniques and institute such interviews as a regular feature of Maledicta .
Faced with this problem, some gun toters would skin, or sharpen the flint with a knife, creating a bevel in the flint, which could then make full contact and generate an adequate shower of sparks.
The new disclosures emboldened major newspapers to sharpen their portrayal of Clinton as a central participant in the sale of presidential access to foreign contributors.
A suggested solution to the semantic confusion would be to sharpen the distinction between paddleball and racquetball . These games could be defined simply as ` handball played with a paddle,' the only difference being that paddleball employs a perforated wooden racquet and a large spongy ball, while racquetball , which is rapidly pushing both handball and paddleball into obscurity, employs a small strung racquet and a lively rubber ball.