whetstone

Example Sentences

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Martin’s “A Game of Thrones” series, said, “A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2025

Whatever knife you choose, buy a honing rod, sharpening steel or whetstone.

From Washington Times • Jun. 9, 2023

Over the past two million years huge sheets of ice ground the landscape of central Illinois to a whetstone flatness.

From Scientific American • Feb. 13, 2023

Activities that demand focus and industry are the whetstone to keeping cognition sharp, Merrill says.

From Washington Post • Dec. 19, 2022

I go get it, sit out on a stump, running the whetstone over the blade.

From "Shiloh" by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor