sharpenings

A carpet of dust, pencil sharpenings and cigarette ash covered the worn linoleum floor.

Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010

With the whole of Westminster abuzz with whispered plots and covert knife-sharpenings perhaps the Commons seemed a haven of openness and civility by contrast.

Brown gets through PMQs 2009

With the whole of Westminster abuzz with whispered plots and covert knife-sharpenings perhaps the Commons seemed a haven of openness and civility by contrast.

Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2009

The time duration between each sharpening is equivalent to 30 - 150 meterage, the total lifespan after about 15 - 25 sharpenings is approx. 2,000 meterage.

7.1 Pneumatic jack hammer, drilling stand, jackleg 1993

Some of the nicks in the sword's fore edge were so deep that successive sharpenings had failed to obliterate them.

Sharpe's Waterloo Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 1990

Frequently, as many as three or four starters were used in starting a hole, and generally two sharpenings were required for each

Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The Bergen Hill Tunnels. Paper No. 1154 F. Lavis

The sharpenings of a lead pencil were still there, and lying at the edge of the water was a crumpled-up piece of paper.

A Patriotic Schoolgirl Angela Brazil 1907

Everywhere he found grains of tobacco, trodden cigarette ashes, pencil sharpenings, pen points eaten with rust.

Là-bas Keene [Translator] Wallace 1877

And the number of sharpenings between Courtnall and Bourque?

canada.com Top Stories 2010

But the ice-hardened carbon-steel blade keeps its edge for a long time between sharpenings.

Mirror.co.uk - News 2009