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The debate sharpened considerably.

The soldiers sharpened up their knives.

Jane voice sharpened as she became impatient.

The second baseman sharpened his spikes before every game.

The debacle of the 2009 elections sharpened their scepticism.

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

The victim was hoisted above the pyramid and slowly lowered, crotch first, onto its sharpened pinnacle.

Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD; say, a sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished.

Poultry shears are a great help in disjointing broilers and fryers; regular steel is more practical than stainless, as the shears can be sharpened more satisfactorily.

Yet the conflict sharpened between the state broadcasting monopoly and those foreign-based satellite channels that the government accuses of fomenting unrest since the elections.

In the pastoral areas of northern Kenya, southern Ethiopia and south Somalia the death of livestock on a massive scale has sharpened conflict.

Despite fears that his health may have blunted his ambition, however, those moments seem to have sharpened a business method that often seems wilful, individualistic and counterintuitive.

The knowledge that wine was forbidden sharpened his yearning for “the permitted flavours of melons and grapes” that flourished in Kabul.

Fix a stone, sharpened with a deadly edge, at the end of acarefully weighted stick, and you have a weapon - a dart, arrow or aspear - that could be lethal at a considerable distance.

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.