were sharpening
- past progressive of sharpen.
Example Sentences
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Even in the pandemic’s infancy, people were sharpening pitchforks, infuriated by the many tweets and ’grams from celebrities locked down in fancy houses, their perfect faces telling us, “We’re all in this together.”
From Slate ● Feb. 4, 2021
Friends were sharpening their skills and politics: Macklemore opening for Blue Scholars, housemate Toby Crittenden working with youth-politics nonprofit The Washington Bus.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 13, 2017
But his most recent had come at St Andrews in 1990 and the press were sharpening their knives.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2013
There were indications that factional leaders within Kishi's own party were sharpening their knives in order to dispose of the Premier and take his place.
From Time Magazine Archive
The foggy shapes in the Foe-Glass were sharpening, had become more distinct.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
