Example sentences for: sharpened

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

  • The product is a sharpened understanding of what might be important to look at further in similar situations and what explains why the instance happened as it did.

  • Tamara Jenkins, the writer and first-time director, has an eye for absurd juxtapositions that was obviously sharpened by the pain of her nomadic upbringing.

  • Suddenly, they attack you with razor blades, shanks, picks, shivs, or sharpened rebar.

  • Plant leaves and other plant parts including peppers were then rubbed into the wounds on the noses of the dogs [ 20 ] . This was done on the assumption that the power of scent in dogs was improved by these practices since the nasal mucous membranes were cleaned, the perceptions were sharpened, and the dog would keep its nose to the ground when hunting [ 20 21 ] . There seemed to be a mental connection of success in acquisition of game with pain previously inflicted on the hunter and his dog [ 20 ] . The nervous system of the dogs was irritated to such an extent that it was responsive to even the slightest external stimulus and therefore more likely to be successful in hunting [ 21 ] . There was also the belief that inflicting pain was a means of preparing to meet without flinching any pain or danger that could arise during the chase [ 20 ] . This preparation was not ill-advised since Lachesis muta muta often lives in the burrows of lappe and tatou [ 22 ] . Each hunting dog was trained to hunt one sort of game [ 20 ] .

  • (I saw the movie at a multiplex in the Bronx, and my appreciation of this point was sharpened by the audience's yelling "faggot!"


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