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"sharpen up" Definitions
  1. to become better, smarter, more skillful, etc.
  2. to improve (something)

68 Sentences With "sharpen up"

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Only three quick steps are required to sharpen up a shot in Photoshop 2020.
The lens has an additional element added to sharpen up images at the edges.
They had good speed for sure, but we need to sharpen up a little bit.
I'm trying to sharpen up Andrew's point that you seem to not see the point of.
Something to get you moving again; to sharpen up those edges blurred by turkey and endless TV gameshows.
We have seen him sharpen up, with a wardrobe rooted in tradition but also very modernist and minimal.
Still more have been used to identify pulsar stars, locate unusual exoplanets, or sharpen up low-res telescope imagery.
"For Chris ... it's to go down there to Oklahoma City and sharpen up for September," manager Dave Roberts said.
The 4:3 setting is similar to pixel perfect, but it doesn't do anything to sharpen up the image.
Kuchar acknowledged he would need to sharpen up his game over the weekend to have a realistic chance of winning.
Since dwindling enthusiasm among fans would harm revenues for football's administrative bodies, there is little incentive for them to sharpen up.
Idris Elba may need to start warming up his vocal chords (and sharpen up his claws) for his latest film project.
"The next election is winnable for the coalition provided we sharpen up the policy difference with Labor," Abbott told 2GB radio.
I think if I can sharpen up my short game and my putting a little bit, I can get something going.
This forces you to think about whether you are right or wrong and to sharpen up arguments in defence of a position.
Character design was something I wanted to sharpen up on, and this project dropped on my lap and gave me that chance.
"(When) we arrived in the BVI, somebody said 'sharpen up your service a bit and you could be in the airline business,'" Branson recalled.
Dear gentlemen, sharpen up your razors and lather up that dome, it may be time to shed your locks for a more dominant look — bald.
Tennessee (4-3) hosts the Baltimore Ravens (2478-227) on Sunday in Nissan Stadium, looking to sharpen up its red-zone offense and generate more quarterback sacks.
It would have been smart of Mr Trump to have encouraged their efforts on spending while taking some of the credit for getting them to sharpen up.
We've got to sharpen up some five-on-five stuff, definitely, but sometimes you need a power play to get you one and it definitely helped tonight.
I would only train for five days—1.5 hours a day—in the lead up to a fight and that was always to sharpen up my grappling.
PARIS — As the four-city show cavalcade comes to an end, here's a look at some of the catwalk styles that could sharpen up your wardrobe in 2018.
You do need to do some manual work to get the best results though, highlighting the areas you'd like to sharpen up with your finger once a picture is loaded.
Flesh-n-Bone says Bill Cosby better sharpen up his checkers game, and his stand-up comedy ... if he wants to make it through the next 3 to 10 years.
"I thought he had a pretty good outing and some of the feedback I was getting was that he was starting to sharpen up some pitches and he felt very good," Lovullo said.
"I thought the guys did a good job to hang tough and show the ability to come back, but we need to sharpen up, and that's what we'll focus on tonight," Spithill said.
"My game needs to sharpen up a little bit more but today was actually a really great day and gives me a lot of confidence going into the next three rounds," she added.
And with around four in 10 Americans having side hustle, there's more need than ever to sharpen up your digital and social media strategy and learn how to boost sales and build a successful brand.
Part of an exciting wave of fearless young players with seemingly unlimited potential, he is already ranked 55th in the world but says he needs to sharpen up his driving to stay atop the leaderboard.
In 2016 Spectral Edge invented Phusion, a computation photography technique which uses infrared light imperticeptible to the human eye to sharpen up smartphone photos and restore color, especially in pictures taken on hazy or foggy days.
" Swizz added that as a collector himself, he wanted to put artists at the center of this collection, telling the publication, "I encourage creatives to sharpen up on their business, because you can't have art without business.
FRANKFURT, July 19 (Reuters) - Euro zone banks would face a "material impact" on their capital and cash positions if interest rates rose abruptly, the International Monetary Fund said on Thursday, urging local watchdogs to sharpen up their analytical tools.
Now aged 54 and content with his lot in portly middle age, he's the divorced father of three grown up kids; and sometime trainer, helping up-and-coming fighters, from all over the world, sharpen up their fighting weapons.
As a broodmare she produced very few foals, but exerted an enduring influence on the breed as the female-line ancestor of Sharpen Up.
Released: in mid- October 2009 Sharpen Up the Knives was a fifteen track album collection consisting of singles, album tracks and a couple of new recordings.
On his three-year-old debut, Sharpen Up ran in the Greenham Stakes over seven furlongs at Newbury Racecourse and finished second to Martinmas. Sharpen Up missed the 2000 Guineas and did not appear again for three months. He was brought back to sprint distances for the July Cup over six furlongs at Newmarket. He sweated up before the race but ran well to finish second to the filly Parsimony.
As a two-year-old, Sharpen Up was given a rating of 127 by the independent Timeform organisation, placing him seven pounds behind the top-rated Deep Diver.
Despite his successes, Sharpen Up was only the third highest rated colt of his generation in van Cutsem's stable, being ranked behind Crowned Prince and High Top in the Free Handicap.
Sharpen Up was a chestnut horse standing 16.1 hands high with a white blaze and white socks on his hind legs bred and owned by Mimi van Cutsem. He was sired by the American stallion Atan, who was retired from racing after winning his only race. His dam, Rocchetta, was a full sister to Outcrop, the winner of the Yorkshire Oaks. Sharpen Up was trained throughout his racing career by Bernard van Cutsem at the Stanley House tables in Newmarket.
Sharpen Up the Knives is a compilation album by the English alternative rock band Puressence. The album's track listing consists mostly of tracks from their Island period, with some unreleased tracks including Che which singer James Mudriczki recorded for a Judy Collins tribute album.
The Copenhagen Post reported in January 2012 that "politicians, commentators and the hoi polloi" were in a "tizzy" over Søvndal's poor English, which had been "satirised on YouTube and ridiculed on newspaper chatboards", with opposition politicians offering "patronising suggestions that he should sharpen up his English act – pronto".
Burke commented "On soft ground this filly is very good and she can only sharpen up for that run. Win, lose or draw she has been an absolute star for us, and it's just great to get her back. She has a great temperament and has been a pleasure to be around." On her final appearance Quiet Reflection finished tenth in the 2017 British Champions Sprint on 21 October.
He was bred by Marystead Farm, the American arm of French horseman Paul de Moussac, owner of the Haras du Mezeray stud farm at Ticheville in the Lower Normandy Region of France. Sired by Sharpen Up, he was out of the mare Trephine who was a daughter of Canadian Horse of the Year, Viceregal, a first-crop son of Northern Dancer. He was conditioned for racing by André Fabre.
Rockfel's time at stud was brief: in November 1941 she became ill and died of a "twisted gut". Earlier that year she had produced her only foal, a colt sired by Hyperion. Named Rockefella, he won three races and sired the 2000 Guineas winner Rockavon and the leading Japanese sire China Rock. Rockefella was also the damsire of Sharpen Up, the sire of Pebbles, Kris, Diesis and Sharpo.
Sharpen Up (17 March 1969 - 2 March 1992) was British racehorse and sire. He was one of the leading European two-year-olds of his generation, winning all five of his races including the Seaton Delaval Stakes and the Middle Park Stakes. He failed to win in three starts in 1972 and was retired to stud. He became a highly successful breeding stallion in both Europe and North America.
The unplaced horses included Boucher and Rheingold. High Top's win at Doncaster was the culmination of an outstanding season for Van Cutsem's two-year-old colts: he had won the Dewhurst Stakes with Crowned Prince and the Middle Park Stakes with Sharpen Up. In the Free Handicap, a rating of the year's best British two-year-olds, Crowned Prince was given top weight of 133 pounds, with High Top level with Yaroslav in second place with 131.
Van Cutsem bred horses at Northmore Farm in Exning, near Newmarket, Suffolk, widely known as the birthplace and global centre of thoroughbred horse racing. He became a millionaire, thanks to his training and breeding of champion horses. For example, he trained High Top (1969–1988), Park Top and Sharpen Up (1969–1992). Moreover, he trained the winner of the Washington, D.C. International Stakes, the City and Suburban Handicap and the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes in 1969.
Selkirk was a chestnut horse with a white blaze and long white socks on his hind legs, bred in Pennsylvania by his owner George Strawbridge. He was sired by Sharpen Up, a British racehorse who won the Middle Park Stakes in 1971 before becoming a successful breeding stallion. His other progeny included Pebbles, Kris and Diesis. Selkirk's dam, Annie Edge was a successful racemare for Strawbridge on both sides of the Atlantic, winning the Park Stakes in 1983, and the New York Stakes a year later.
Michael J Scofield is portrayed by Wentworth Miller. For most of the first season of the show, Miller utilized a limited range of facial expressions which generated both positive and negative criticisms. It was for this performance in the first season that Miller was nominated for a Golden Globe. The Washington Post criticized Miller's performance as being "the most oppressive" and how "the actor apparently thinks it looks cool for him always to be scanning the surroundings...""'Prison Break': Sharpen Up Those Spoons" The Washington Post.
Automatix Inc., founded in January 1980, was the first company to market industrial robots with built-in machine vision.The robot: the life story of a technology, Lisa Nocks, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2007,Robots sharpen up their vision, New Scientist, December 15, 1983, p.811 Its founders were Victor Scheinman, inventor of the Stanford arm; Phillippe Villers, Michael Cronin, and Arnold Reinhold of Computervision; Jake Dias and Dan Nigro of Data General; Gordon VanderBrug, of NBS, Donald L. Pieper of General Electric and Norman Wittels of Clark University.
Danehill Dancer was a bay horse bred by L. K. and K. McCreery and foaled on 20 January 1993. He was sired by Danehill, who won the Haydock Sprint Cup in 1989. Danehill Dancer's dam is Mira Adonde, a daughter of Sharpen Up. Mira Adonde was trained by Alec Stewart, but only raced once, finishing seventh in a seven-furlong maiden race at Newmarket. Danehill Dancer, who stood 15.3 hands (1.63 m) high, was put up for auction at the Goffs sale in October 1994.
One of the managers of Gainesway Farm was Joseph Lannon Taylor. He began his career in the horse industry as the farm manager at Gainesway Farm, where he raised many world-class standardbreds and thoroughbreds and was influential in developing Gainesway Farm. During his time there, Taylor saw six Gainesway stallions lead the world's sire list, the American sire list, or the European sire list: Bold Bidder, Vaguely Noble, Lyphard, Blushing Groom, Riverman, and Sharpen Up. After managing at Gainesway for 40 years, he retired in 1990.
Pebbles was a chestnut filly with a white blaze who was bred in England by the Greek shipping magnate Marcos Lemos whose blue and white colours she carried for her first seven races. Pebbles was the first foal of her dam, La Dolce, who finished fifth in the 1979 Epsom Oaks. As a descendant of the mare Aloe, she was related to such notable racehorses as Round Table, Known Fact and Parthia. Pebbles' sire, Sharpen Up, was a highly successful breeding stallion, best known as a strong influence for speed rather than stamina.
Diesis was a chestnut horse with a white star and three white socks bred in England by his owner 9th Baron Howard de Walden. He was sired by Sharpen Up out of the noted broodmare Doubly Sure, making him a full brother to the champion miler Kris, and a half- brother to several other good winners including Rudimentary (Sandown Mile). The colt was named after the printer's symbol "‡" also known as a "double dagger". He was trained by Henry Cecil at his Warren Place stable in Newmarket, Suffolk.
Harris won his first Victorian PGA in 1950 at age 28 while he was still teaching golf at Hartley's sports store. In mid-1950 Harris became club professional at Keysborough Golf Club where he stayed for most of his tournament playing career. Bob Spencer later followed as Harris's assistant. Throughout his time at Keysborough he earned his living as a typical club pro (by teaching, running the pro shop etc.) and just like many of his contemporaries practice time to sharpen up his game for tournament play was very limited.
Sanglamore was a chestnut horse with a white blaze and a long white sock on his left hind leg bred in Kentucky by Juddmonte Farms the breeding organisation of his owner Khalid Abdullah. He was sired by Sharpen Up, a British racehorse who won the Middle Park Stakes in 1971 before becoming a successful breeding stallion. His other progeny included Pebbles, Kris, Trempolino, and Diesis. Sanglamore's dam Ballinderry was a high-class racemare who won the Ribblesdale Stakes at Royal Ascot and finished third in the Yorkshire Oaks.
As a two-year-old in 1972, Crowned Prince was a member of an exceptional team of juveniles trained by Van Cutsem which also include High Top and Sharpen Up. Crowned Prince won two of his three races. At Doncaster Racecourse in September he contested the Champagne Stakes over seven furlongs. Ridden by Lester Piggott he started the 11/10 favourite and won from the Barry Hills-trained Rheingold. In the Dewhurst Stakes at Newmarket Racecourse a month later he was matched against Rheingold and won by five lengths at odds of 4/9.
He moved to Al-Nassr in 2009 for SR32 million ($8 million), breaking Yasser Al-Qahtani record transfer as the largest deal in Saudi football history. In his first season with Al-Nassr, Al-Sahlawi scored 21 goals in 36 matches and received the Young Player of the Year award from STC. In 2015, he was selected as one of the world's best top goalscorers by the IFFHS. On 29 March 2018, it was confirmed that he will spend three weeks training with Manchester United in order to sharpen up his game ahead of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.
The start of 'pirate' broadcasting in 1966 from Radio Hauraki, based on a barge in the Hauraki Gulf, and the consequent opening up of NZ radio to private investors led to a sharp rise in competition. In 1973 the NZBC looked to sharpen up the rather fusty image of its metro stations by rebranding the three YD stations in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch back to ZM and promoting them under the brand ZM Maxi Music. In 1978, channel spacing in the AM band in New Zealand was adjusted from 10 kHz to 9 kHz. As a result, 1ZM moved to 1251AM.
Growing up Albert idolized martial arts legends Jackie Chan and Jet Li, claiming he wanted to be a "karate master" just like them. He began taking Tae Kwon Do classes, and received his third level belt before giving it up due to not being able to afford it. In junior high Albert was a part of his school's wrestling team, but did not pursue it during high school like his brother who was a two-time state placer. Albert began looking into training MMA after a friend asked him to help sharpen up his wrestling skills.
The Heroes focuses on a three-day battle set in the same world as the First Law trilogy, about seven years after events of the trilogy itself. Union commander Lord Marshal Kroy leads the Union forces against the much smaller Northern army led by Black Dow. The story features many characters seen in previous First Law novels like Bremer dan Gorst, Lord Marshal Kroy, and the Dogman. Red Country is set about thirteen years after the First Law trilogy and revolves around a youthful female protagonist who is hoping to bury her bloody past, but she'll have to sharpen up some of her old ways to get her family back.
On his three-year-old debut, High Top was sent to Yorkshire to contest the Classic Trial at Thirsk Racecourse. he led from the start and won by five lengths from My Brief, with the leading filly Waterloo two lengths further back in third. With both Crowned Prince and Sharpen Up failing in their respective trials, High Top was Van Cutsem's sole representative in the 2000 Guineas over the Rowley Mile course at Newmarket on 29 April. With Carson again in the saddle, he started the 85/40 favourite against eleven opponents, his form having been boosted by the success of Waterloo in the 1000 Guineas two days earlier.
Kris was a dark chestnut horse with white socks on his hind feet, bred in England by his owner Lord Howard de Walden. He was sired by Sharpen Up and was the first foal of the broodmare Doubly Sure, making him a full brother to the champion two-year-old Diesis, and a half-brother to several other good winners including Rudimentary (Sandown Mile). The colt was named after a type of double-edged Malayan dagger. He was trained throughout his racing career by Henry Cecil at his Warren Place stable in Newmarket, Suffolk and was ridden in all of his races by Joe Mercer.
As a two-year-old in 1971, Sharpen Up was undefeated in five races. He won a maiden race at Leicester Racecourse in June by four lengths and the Cantley Plate at Doncaster before moving up in class to win the Hyperion Stakes at Ascot in July by three lengths and the Seaton Delaval Stakes at Newcastle in August. On his final appearance of the year he contested the Group One Middle Park Stakes over six furlongs at Newmarket Racecourse. Ridden by Willie Carson, he started the 5/6 favourite and won from the New Stakes winner Philip of Spain and the Prix Robert Papin winner Sun Prince.
He went to Guildford Grammar School where he was in the school first XVIII. He also represented the school in the 1st VIII for rowing. Late in the round 15 match against , Logue gave away a crucial 50-metre penalty after he failed to correctly return the ball to Nick Riewoldt, who had fooled Logue into thinking that he had taken a mark inside forward 50; in fact, it was Tim Membrey who took the mark, and he would later kick a goal from the 50-metre penalty to give his side a nine-point win. Logue later was criticised by coach Ross Lyon following the incident, being told to "sharpen up".
Leaving the ending of the novel open, he planned to let the fortress stand or fall dependent upon his own prognosis. When Gemmell later learned that he had suffered a misdiagnosis, he set The Siege of Dros Delnoch to one side until 1980, when a friend read the manuscript and convinced Gemmell to sharpen up the novel in order to make one last attempt at publication. It was accepted in 1982 and published in 1984 under the new title, Legend, going on to achieve considerable commercial success. Gemmell said that while it had "all the flaws you expect in a first novel", the writing of Legend was "a golden time" in his life, citing it as the favourite of all his novels.
She was, and after landing the lead role, Godecki was able to sharpen up her swimming skills and learn how to scuba dive at the Ocean Girl location,Lakeland Ledger - Google News Archive Search Port Douglas in Far North Queensland, Australia. During the filming, Godecki was able to swim with dolphins and even with a pod of Minke whales that came up to the film crew's boat. Because much of Ocean Girl was filmed in the open water, she was always under the close watch of a stunt and dive safety team who kept a watch out for sharks. Godecki took most of 1996 off from Ocean Girl to complete her final year at secondary school concentrating on her favourite subjects—maths and science.

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