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And for those sorry few of you whose appetites have been whetted, but remain uninitiated, take heart.
As time moved on, and as public appetite was whetted for scandal and so-called human interest stories, the edges began to crumble.
We whetted our palates with two flavoured varieties, a bison grass and a sweeter sorb apple.
She whetted a rag and wiped the floor as I dumped the sorry sight into the wastebasket.
Using the clear water from the pool, Mo Ye and Gan Jiang whetted swords on this stone to hone their cutting-edges.
Her countrywoman, who published The Female Eunuch in 1970, had already whetted the appetite for work by women.
The little blue pill has upped the stakes in indoor sport and whetted people's appetites for lifestyle drugs.
Sharper than the most finely whetted blade, this tooth can slice through an unwary pioneer's fingers in an instant.
You are rationing out information to us in tidbits, just enough to keep our appetites whetted.
But my appetite was whetted and I craved more gritty details.
Far from satiating voters' thirst for blood, the speaker's decapitation may have whetted it.
The flavour that has whetted the appetite of physicists gathered in the French capital is known as the D0-meson.
Two is not enough for any strong claim to be made, but has certainly whetted the appetite for more data.
Is it simply the business to make a profit by appealing to whatever appetites can be whetted and satisfied temporarily?
It sold 200,000 copies in the first two years and whetted the appetite of a great many Canadians to investigate this scandal further.
This summer Tété whetted music fans' appetites with a live album entitled Par monts et vallons.
Despite their local affiliations, these athletes' victories were quickly claimed for Canada, and whetted public appetite for the Olympic Games.
Working with Johns whetted Miller's appetite to return in earnest to the recording studio.
The expedition, which lasted until 1902, whetted Captain Bob's appetite for Arctic adventure and brought him to Peary's attention.
Books are so full of mystery that my appetite for them is forever being whetted anew.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The notch in Skofnung they whetted, but the more they whetted the bigger it was.
The more nearly the chisel can be whetted at the angle at which it was ground the better.
They waited for the hour to come, and whetted the knife before I took it in my hands.
Sometimes we paddled alongside for a while, and whetted each other with gastronomical fancies as we went.
All this, though it whetted my curiosity, told me little that was definite.
My sense of enjoyment possessed an edge whetted to the finest, untouched, keen, exquisite.
The few words I had already overheard whetted my curiosity, and I was anxious to learn what manner of vengeance Thurid was planning against me.
When the task was done, Mr Boffin, with his appetite for Misers whetted instead of satiated, began to look out again.
The little tastes of apple that he got only whetted his appetite.
His appetite had been whetted by the thirty pounds he had made in the summer, and he wanted now to make a couple of hundred.
Every knife in all his band was whetted for that particular scalp.
The thrall who had spoken whetted his scythe with it and began to mow.
Almost daily he whetted his keen knife and scraped and whittled at his young beard to eradicate this degrading emblem of apehood.
This only whetted the zeal and inquisitiveness of the inquisitors.
The conditions only whetted the Boxers to greater barbarity.
But oddly enough, the aggressive criticism only whetted his purpose.
The more I examined the thing, the more it whetted my curiosity.
Two human bodies would have but whetted the creature's appetite, and that he had killed and eaten the green man and the red girl seemed only too likely to Carthoris.
It was that moment in summer when the sound of the scythe being whetted makes us cast more lingering looks at the flower-sprinkled tresses of the meadows.
Having already whetted her whistle and being in charge of the horseless carriage, Madam enjoyed a mineral water while I had to make do with a bottle of Sol Mexican beer.
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