hones

Example Sentences

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Even as China hones its formal sanctions toolkit, it still turns to informal methods when legal and political justification is thin.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025

Kwan’s novel hones in on the ways that isolation and boredom sap vital parts of ourselves.

From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2025

But it’s in solitude where he hones the focus and intent to make a baseball go where he demands it to go with frightening consistency.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 19, 2024

This hones in on an idea that has been around for centuries and it's fun.

From Salon • Jun. 23, 2023

You should assume from the outset that if you find a skeleton six feet deep in the earth that the hones are a lot newer than the dirt around them.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann