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- verb music Present participle of
sharp .
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Examples
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Also, she did some sharping, which is a tradition in Northern Europe.
New York Sun - All Articles JAY NORDLINGER 2008
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The Germans have carried the flatting and sharping of tones to a logical conclusion in their present nomenclature, for by "sharping" the sound of a single letter it is raised a semitone from its normal diapason, thus F becomes
Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University Edward MacDowell 1884
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I learned that sharping my nonverbal communication skills were crucial to the patient as well as my career.
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A group of warm gas uprushing, ten fingers more and more red, hands temperature was sharping up, then a group of haze with wind of electroric and thunder rain had out, electric stone touching on fire that soon spread up.
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It looks like it ` s sharping up to be a bad week for the white wing wrong side cult party of no.
Think Progress » CBO estimates that stimulus package has employed up to 2.1 million workers. 2010
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He was not to know that Moran, after retiring from the Indian Army, had turned his uncanny marksmanship to account by becoming a professional assassin in the employ of Holmes's arch-enemy, Professor Moriarty, or that the Colonel eked out his contract fees by card-sharping, as in the case of Stanger and Adair.
Watershed 2010
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Paul had been a clever "confidence artist" when Cameron first encountered him, alternating his time between parting fools from their money by sheer persuasion and by card-sharping.
red dust Ryn Cricket 2010
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As Prince of Wales, first gentleman of Europe (God help us), he was the bright particular star and pack leader of the genteel rabble assembled at Tranby Croft, Yorks, for the Doncaster races, and knew perfectly well that any serious breach of polite behaviour by a fellow guest, such as card-sharping, was bound to land on his mat.
Watershed 2010
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Palliadan has already drawn his line in the sand and is sharping his sword for the next time he sees Zachery Paul Sire.
Bob Wright proposes a "competition to see who can be more civil and at the same time be more disagreeing in a substantively contentious way." Ann Althouse 2008
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He did it so that Sam would go back to hunting, and sharping his skills to become the leader of the demon army.
mollusque commented on the word sharping
It seemed to me for an instant that there was no sound in the bar, that the sharpies stopped sharping and the drunk on the stool stopped burbling away, and it was like just after the conductor taps on his music stand and raises his arms and holds them poised.
Raymond Chandler, 1953, The Long Goodbye, chapter 13
September 5, 2009