Use "sharpened" in a sentence

1. sharpened into spears awaited them at the bottom of the short pit

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2. They had then cut off all branches between two and three inches thick, sharpened both ends and dug in a forest of spikes around the walls and the gate

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3. The second wave tripped over the fallen first wave and, as they crawled forward they too became victims of the deadly sharpened steel traps

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4. All those years in the Dead Worlds, she had been honing her skills – a blade being sharpened to a razors edge

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5. The silver in her eyes was almost blinding and her face had sharpened

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6. Blackness permeated my eyesight, but my other senses sharpened

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7. Father said the advantage of iron was that it could be sharpened anew once dull, whereas bronze had to be melted down and then recast

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8. But with no water in the immediate vicinity and nowhere left to hide, a fractured beam and all of its sharpened splinters was the only plausible approach left

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9. He smiled as small children scampered about the greenery, pestering the cows and horses while adults chopped wood and sharpened weapons

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10. For his headache had only since sharpened and his temper only worsened

11. It appeared to be made of sharpened bone

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12. After you resolved that, as a good Jewish man, you should put me away?” My voice cut him and I sharpened it more

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13. His eyes sharpened, and he cocked his head as if listening

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14. The intensity of her look sharpened to a glare as she cut him short

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15. Travel bags were packed and weapons were sharpened on stones and checked into their carrying devices

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16. Now, her focus sharpened

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17. Galeron’s eyes sharpened on her own

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18. "Fixed what?" I growled around a mouthful of fingers, busily trying to extract the pessary with a sharpened matchstick

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19. When Conal heard the name Lexi, his interest sharpened

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20. The trench was filled with sharpened pikes made from wood

21. Perched always on the knife-edge of extinction, he sharpened his tools of survival throughout that crisis-laden epoch

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22. What he was now saying though as if he spoke directly to their minds, sounded totally different; his voice abrasive beyond human measure, as if razors sharpened against coarse stone:

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23. Time only sharpened his understanding that she had also looked at him

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24. The argument sharpened when it was discovered that there was a hole in the ozone layer over the South Pole that hadn’t been noted before

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25. Perched always on the knife-edge of extinction, he sharpened his tools of survival throughout that crisis-laden epoch” (the Pleistocene)

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26. This tool of survival was sharpened persistently over those ages before the possibility of a use of the power of this imagining could be extrapolated into a wider utility

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27. Two pairs of them set up household, each in its own area above the patio, occasionally squabbling noisily during breeding time when rivalries sharpened

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28. They’re similar, Cara and Tris, two women sharpened by loss

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29. The pain sharpened in her eyes and she covered them with the heels of her hands, skin wet with tears of agony

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30. That tactic was sharpened to perfection when President Ronald Reagan nominated Judge Robert Bork for a seat on the Supreme Court in 1987

31. Some analysts and commentators spread a litany of anti Yankee “buts”, sharpened slashes against the assaulted country and consoling and even cheering hand-clapping for the executors of such atrocity

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32. The contrast was sharpened by the very essence and character of the Roman Empire with its tyrannical rule and its idolatry which

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33. The talons were hooked and seemed well sharpened and used, during battles from times past

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34. The foe-ruler laughed, dodging the swipe of the bent and sharpened iron at the shaft-end

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35. Each Eid archer stood on the shore of the frozen river by a sharpened wood stake stuck into the ground to stop charging horses

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36. Waiting for darkness, drifting with lowered sails in the open water over the horizon, fighters sharpened and oiled the blades of their weapons

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37. Halfdan drew that long, sharpened iron from its sheath and rested the blade on his lap

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38. As the photo sharpened, she saw something odd

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39. The crew had sharpened two of the diving knives,

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40. He had one of the sharpened diving knives in his fist,

41. a bit of work; but if I sharpened some of the tools that I’d thrown

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42. Several days’ labour preparing the defences were evident, with several ditches dug into the frozen ground at the track’s entrance to slow a charge up and lines of sharpened stakes had been driven into the ground to stop any cavalry

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43. "Maybe you're not hearing me, soldier," Calvin's voice sharpened

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44. When he looked at Calvin his eyes sharpened for an instant, as if to say something, but then they were empty

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45. As I moved from roof to roof, the bricks and stone only sharpened my claws

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46. I could've further sharpened the niche but like I said, there really is no limit to how sharp

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47. delicate pink rosebuds sharpened his gaze as he watched them

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48. Around this barrier was a succession of moats and sharpened poles

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49. These creatures had sulfur teeth standing out projected out of their mouth, sharpened like knives; their long tails moved in all directions and used them as if they were a whip

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50. Bjorn assailed the spherical creatures with sharpened stones hurled from his sling

51. The gnome and halfling flung sharpened stones from their slings at the minotaurs, striking several of them between the eyes

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52. They hewed at them with their sharpened steel

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53. Their blades, sharpened in the Plane of Order, left scalding gashes on their scaled hide

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54. Slowly his face cleared and sharpened as he sensed freedom

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55. She was innocent! The realisation electrified and sharpened tired senses

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56. As she sorted, packed and dragged the boxes and suitcases through to the front room of the rented cottage, everyone she knew was examined under the spotlight of her sharpened intellect

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57. These tattoos, known as irezumi in Japan, are still often ‘hand-poked,’ that is, the ink is inserted beneath the skin using non-electrical, hand-made and hand held tools with needles of sharpened bamboo or steel

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58. Then there was Larry riding his own floating manta-ray with a sharpened spike tail and jet black in color

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59. lumpy cylinders for the most part, with sharpened heads that reminded him of impact hammers

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60. The sharpened point of the knife entered his clothing above the bulge of

61. He could not lose as the coke really sharpened him up

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62. He did not see the six men who walked into the shower room holding ‘shanks’, sharpened pieces of plastic that acted as knives

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63. Yasala made no verbal protest, nor did she offer any resistance, as Valeria carried out the first part of her threat with a fury that her captive's obstinacy only sharpened

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64. Turner used batteries in socks as a weapon; he sharpened toothbrushes and stabbed inmates who wanted to harm him

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65. The possibility sharpened his mind, his entire body tensed

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66. the hard work sharpened the appetites of several animals so that

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67. dagger, sharpened to the best edge the metal would hold

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68. sharpened the appetites of several animals so that their natural hunting

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69. Her skills, sharpened with years of practice, had enabled her to find and trap Sabrina

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70. She gathered some sturdy sticks and sharpened them to points and smoothed their surfaces

71. José Arcadio Segundo, devoured by baldness, indifferent to the air that had been sharpened by the nauseating vapors, was still reading and rereading the unintelligible parchments

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72. When they got there a group of men were already pulling the monster off the sharpened stakes they had set in the bottom of a pit covered with dry leaves, and it stopped lowing

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73. The constant ache of their loss is sharpened on the

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74. Knives were being sharpened

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75. abdomen that came and went caused him discomfort but sharpened

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76. sharpened with his pocketknife just before the meeting

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77. The dog lifted his head from the shade of a hut, one ear sharpened

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78. Slanted poles with sharpened tops, known as "Rommel's asparagus" were placed in possible glider and paratroop landing spots

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79. up and Shoop’s senses sharpened to match the game’s intensity

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80. Back when technology was a sharpened stick, the search for rational explanations of everything

81. revealing the blade’s sharpened portion

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82. Men, Fairies, Wood Nymphs came in and out with swords to be sharpened, fittings, and armor to be made

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83. Three silvery spoons fell out, one sharpened to a point

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84. were close behind him, each with their own deadly weapon sharpened especial y for this mission

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85. They sharpened some of the images and adjusted the colour on a few more

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86. The last sight Lov saw was two males slapping at each other with their tails while using weapons made from chitinous forearms that had been hardened and sharpened, in an attempt to cut the other fighter

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87. Inacio sank into his seat and exhaled as his mind relaxed and his resolve sharpened

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88. The jerks of the journey thereon that jostled their man closer to them sharpened Sandhya’s sensuality and deepened Roopa’s desire

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89. The very thought that her lover copulated with her mate sharpened Roopa’s sensuality, and that made her imagine she smelled him through his wife’s medium

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90. He had one of his gang with him holding a broom handle sharpened at

91. On the very top of the Giant's head sat a ram's skull, while beneath the macabre headdress his face was painted black with the ram's rotten blood and on his shoulders he wore pauldrons made of sharpened bone spikes

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92. It was a long weapon, with a sturdy head and its edge looked as if it had been sharpened to its most deadly point

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93. ’ She slashed at the air with her small hands, the thick, metal covered nails, sharpened into lethal points

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