Sharpening is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SHARPENING in dictionary:

VERB:
• make or become sharp or sharper
• improve or cause to improve
NOUN:
• the act of making sharp
• act of sharpening
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to make sharp

Words related to SHARPENING

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Words that contain SHARPENING

sharpenings17 resharpening18

How to use SHARPENING in a sentence

• Hobbs, the butcher, ceased sharpening a knife and gazed out.
• I must leave it undecided whether the sharpening is done by filing or by breaking off pieces from the sides.
• Everything must be general, so it is a continual sharpening of wits, and one has to shout a good deal, as otherwise, with every one talking at once, one would not be heard.
• So all this day, while on horseback, I have been preparing for the surgical operation by sharpening my penknife on the leathern pommel of my saddle as I rode along.
• The Leading Gentleman took that evening to sharpening the already sharp blade of the knife.
• By staying in that hostile atmosphere, which was only sharpening his remorse, he would pile one error upon another.
• She heard me without the exclamations I expected, her head bent over the pencil she was sharpening, and her silence continued after I had finished.
• It was this acute sharpening of the senses, the painting of pictures before him, that gave him the gift of golden speech that the Indians had first noticed in him.
• A total absence of idleness, and the fact of being constantly thrown on their own resources in cases of minor difficulty, aid materially in sharpening their wits.
• The water was very cool, and ten minutes in it, with our sharpening hunger, were enough delight.
• Dismounting, he fastened his mule to a willow and proceeded to place me, then himself found a root of a tree, and taking out his knife fell to sharpening pencil.
• She went on sharpening her teeth with a file, and growing bigger and bigger every minute.
• Outside in the moonlight, which was almost as light as day, we found the men busy sharpening their bayonets.
• You could not get this sharpening done at private shops so cheaply, and you cannot do it yourselves.
• Hungry men were sharpening their sheath-knives with steel, and cutting up a side of beef.
• Coolness came with the twilight, sharpening into coldness as the West burned from scarlet and gold to a clear rose.
• How many harvests a machine would cut without sharpening is hard to say.
• The other reporters were sharpening their pencils and laying out their note books.
• Now a widower was sharpening his ax on the bank of the river, and when he saw the coffin stop, he went to fish it out of the water.
• However, it is now proposed to have central stations that will make a specialty of blade sharpening.
• He went on sharpening the stone, but he did not sing while he worked.
• There were reporters sent from seven of the best daily papers, whom I found sharpening their pencils expectantly.
• There is a new machine made for sharpening scissors.
• The blades to be sharpened are passed through an opening in the side of the machine, and are brought in contact with a bar, which is made of emery or other sharpening material.
• Some persons prefer to turn the knife over, drawing it first from the left hand and then toward it, sharpening each surface alternately on the same edge of the steel.

Similar words containing SHARPEN without suffix ing

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