Example Sentences

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Which is funny because I'm a stand-up, but I'm a slow honer.

From Salon • Jul. 7, 2023

Why shouldn’t the artist also be a honer of craft, a sorter of nuts and bolts, as attuned to the quotidian as to the imagined greater beyond?

From New York Times • Apr. 21, 2022

For me, this would be the honer of a lifetime.

From Washington Post • Dec. 10, 2018

It marked the ninth consecutive appearance that Odorizzi had allowed a honer, a career high and the second-longest active streak in the majors behind 11 by Jesse Chavez of the Los Angeles Angels.

From Washington Times • Jun. 14, 2017

"Good night, and good luck to yer honer; but won't you let me see your honer out of the grounds,—as far as the big gate, at least?"

From Roland Cashel Volume I (of II) by Lever, Charles James