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Example sentences for: sharpening

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(Throaty, short, rise at the end, hint of disgust: I don't know what you're sharpening that thing for...)
Hurston wrote that she was too busy eating well and sharpening her oyster knife to feel victimized by racism.
The drama is spelled out in that lumbering bible, Das Kapital , where in the deepening crises of capitalism, and the sharpening knives of the class struggle, the end of days arrives, as Marx put it in the penultimate chapter of Volume I, when the capitalist "integument" bursts asunder, and the new society, nurtured in the womb of the old, steps forth as social labor, cooperative labor, communal harmony (the transit workers and Giuliani) in a mutual embrace.
My own view is that, like Lorena Bobbitt, she is sharpening the knife to remove the one major impediment that stands between her and her shadow presidency."
Barr sharpening ax on legal aid to poor