Knife-dancers needed regular whetting if they wished to stay alive.

Now, ironically, her whetting of appetites for action served his purposes.

The whetting of the blade was a monotonous undertone to the conversation.

After such a whetting of the appetite, let us also consider what happens when you fire objects at a screen with two slits.

And the innocent whetting of them.

It was an Indian knife with a carved handle and a long, slender blade worn thin by constant whetting.

There was real welcome in the wind, and somewhere near there was the joyful whetting of knives.

The whetting of blades hissed like a restless nest of snakes through a hot and humid night.

It grated on his ears like the whetting of a blade on stone, and he realized it was the lock on the door outside, only amplified ten times.

"Farmer Whetting his Scythe" is an outstanding example, and also illustrates his ability to capture effects of light, weather and vegetation that define a particular place and time.

The presence of luxury items and materials, and the artificial creation and whetting of appetites, as in Capi- talist advertising, are certain to accentuate the less-desirable characteristics of Man.

It did not hurt patronage that Mr. Freed strategically spaced a dozen billboards - only one survives - telling travelers how much farther to the Red Apple, insuring a Pavlovian whetting of appetites.

I was to whet your interest in a deal or two.

But he told them enough to whet their appetite for more.

My men whet their blades and long for the days when they could use them.

All this has whetted the interest of investors looking for the next big thing in technology.

His appetite had only been whetted, and the morning was young.

I think that's what whetted my appetite for life on the road.

If this has whetted your appetite, how should you get started?

It is often food, not music, that whets the appetite for love.

I'm with those who say above that less product is best, regardless of whet you use.

If she wanted to whet my curiosity, she's done it this time.

Much of this growing appetite has been whetted by the stock market.

But realize they are there only to whet the appetite.

"It does whet my appetite for doing more such things," he said.

Appetite whetted, my mother would not allow me to turn the station.

There is nothing like a political debate to whet the appetite.

Sorry this has taken so long after me whetting your appetite.

The many books he read but served to whet his unrest.

I had to tell them very little to whet their appetites.

Their gain would come later, with the thirst they only whetted.

That whetted his interest and encouraged him to dig in.

That taste of war seems to have whetted the appetite for more.

But any resignation would only whet their appetite to cut and run.

We could whet down the rough edges later, the thing now was to keep moving.

But they just whetted the human appetite for more of these wonders.

His curiosity was whetted by the praise he had heard and read.