Sample Sentences for
whet
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    His glimpse that he have had, whet his appetite only and enkeen his desire.  (source)
    whet = increased (a desire)
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    Because there is a force that wants you to realize your destiny; it whets your appetite with a taste of success.  (source)
    whets = increases (a desire)
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    I did express my concerns whet, you appointed —†  (source)
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    Surely, thought Navot, the success of the attack had only whetted his lust for infidel blood.†  (source)
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    Then I went out into the kitchen, took the steel out of the rack and began to whet the bayonet.†  (source)
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    The dwarf had been whetting the edge of his axe and making some mordant jest when Bronn spotted the banner the riders carried before them, the moon-and-falcon of House Arryn, sky-blue and white.†  (source)
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    I was watching to see where he kept his razor, when lo and behold, he takes the harpoon from the bed corner, slips out the long wooden stock, unsheathes the head, whets it a little on his boot, and striding up to the bit of mirror against the wall, begins a vigorous scraping, or rather harpooning of his cheeks.†  (source)
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    You think of your readers, those carrion feeders, and all your typesetters, those wretched abettors, and saber-whetters.†  (source)
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    Mr Halloway whetted his forefinger, tested the wind, and sent a cumulus her way.†  (source)
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    "If I have to listen to something, I'd rather listen to you whet your wife," he said.†  (source)
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    The elf was whetting his long knife.†  (source)
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    But, as the State whets the appetite of the mob by needlessly parading witness after witness before this Court, as the State inflames the public mind further with the ghastly details of this boy's crimes, I shall listen for the State's Attorney to tell this Court why Bigger Thomas killed.†  (source)
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    Many Germans who had served with the Austrian army had left informally when the end of the war whetted their appetites for home, but Alessandro had no wound on his throat to which he could point, no pink line or star-like scar to explain a lack of speech.†  (source)
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