Example Sentences

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You can also use the final honing stage to “strop” serrated knives—helping to keep the teeth polished and aligned—but the Trizor XV cannot resharpen them.

From Slate • Oct. 11, 2018

She knew all about the memory games that some experts promote to resharpen balky minds, yet the research she had read frowned on their effectiveness.

From New York Times • Apr. 30, 2016

Running out of new weapons, Hitler has tried to resharpen this old and blunted one.

From Time Magazine Archive

The blades are finished with Buck�s advanced Edge2x technology, so they are sharper out of the box, hold an edge longer and are easier to resharpen.

From Time Magazine Archive

Oliver sits looking at the layouts for United Steel Frame Pulleys for half-an-hour without really doing anything but sharpen and resharpen a pencil.

From Young People's Pride A Novel by Benét, Stephen Vincent